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07/12/2012
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Police Confirm No Action Against Tia Sharp’s Grandmother
No further action will be taken against the grandmother of 12-year-old Tia Sharp over the schoolgirl's death, the Metropolitan Police has said.
Christine Sharp, 46, was arrested on suspicion of murder after Tia's body was found in her house in New Addington, Croydon, in August.
Tia's body was found a week after she was reported missing on 3 August.
Mrs Sharp's partner, 37-year-old Stuart Hazell, has been charged with the girl's murder.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said the decision not to pursue any action against Mrs Sharp was taken on 4 December.
A 39-year-old man who was arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender remains on bail until mid-December.
Death Threats Made Against Belfast MP
An MP in East Belfast, NI, has received a death threat as tension escalates in the city, the Alliance party has said.
A Sinn Fein councillor on Belfast City Council, Jim McVeigh, has confirmed he has also received a death threat.
There have been loyalist protests and disturbances after Belfast City Council voted to fly the union flag at city hall only on designated days.
On Wednesday night, an Alliance party office was destroyed and the home of two councillors attacked.
The Alliance party has said Naomi Long was advised to leave her home on Thursday night and not to go to her constituency office on Friday.
Starbucks ‘Volunteering’ £10m Tax Criticised
The decision by Starbucks to voluntarily pay £10m in taxes in each of the next two years has come under fire from critics who say the move makes a mockery of the tax system, while the tax authorities reaffirmed that corporation tax was not voluntary.
Prem Sikka, professor of accountancy at Essex University, criticised "private sweetheart deals" with HMRC, saying this would send a bad signal to other businesses.
On Starbucks, he said it was important to know to which part of the past years the £10m figure relates. He told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme on Friday: "The last four years they declared a loss of about £145m, so are they saying this £10m relates to the past four years?
"It is a practice of HRMC also to charge interest and penalties for late payments. How exactly is this £10m arrived at? We have absolutely no idea and really Starbucks should publish all its tax correspondence and the tax computation so we can all see."
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No further action will be taken against the grandmother of 12-year-old Tia Sharp over the schoolgirl's death, the Metropolitan Police has said.
Christine Sharp, 46, was arrested on suspicion of murder after Tia's body was found in her house in New Addington, Croydon, in August.
Tia's body was found a week after she was reported missing on 3 August.
Mrs Sharp's partner, 37-year-old Stuart Hazell, has been charged with the girl's murder.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said the decision not to pursue any action against Mrs Sharp was taken on 4 December.
A 39-year-old man who was arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender remains on bail until mid-December.
Death Threats Made Against Belfast MP
An MP in East Belfast, NI, has received a death threat as tension escalates in the city, the Alliance party has said.
A Sinn Fein councillor on Belfast City Council, Jim McVeigh, has confirmed he has also received a death threat.
There have been loyalist protests and disturbances after Belfast City Council voted to fly the union flag at city hall only on designated days.
On Wednesday night, an Alliance party office was destroyed and the home of two councillors attacked.
The Alliance party has said Naomi Long was advised to leave her home on Thursday night and not to go to her constituency office on Friday.
Starbucks ‘Volunteering’ £10m Tax Criticised
The decision by Starbucks to voluntarily pay £10m in taxes in each of the next two years has come under fire from critics who say the move makes a mockery of the tax system, while the tax authorities reaffirmed that corporation tax was not voluntary.
Prem Sikka, professor of accountancy at Essex University, criticised "private sweetheart deals" with HMRC, saying this would send a bad signal to other businesses.
On Starbucks, he said it was important to know to which part of the past years the £10m figure relates. He told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme on Friday: "The last four years they declared a loss of about £145m, so are they saying this £10m relates to the past four years?
"It is a practice of HRMC also to charge interest and penalties for late payments. How exactly is this £10m arrived at? We have absolutely no idea and really Starbucks should publish all its tax correspondence and the tax computation so we can all see."
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