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This week at theEHP we have an opinion, a new homeless report and prosecutions.

 
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With the new university year fast approaching, we have a student focused article. SpareRoom.co.uk have compiled a list of the university towns and cities in the UK with the most affordable private-sector room rents. Northern Ireland’s, Queens University in Belfast tops the list with weekly rents of just £67, followed by St Andrew’s university in Scotland where the average rent is just £77 a week.

Not surprisingly, London is the most expensive city for students to live in, with private sector accommodation costing £151 per week, or £654 per month. Outside of London, Surrey University, at £109 per week, and Royal Holloway in Egham at £120 per week are the most expensive for nearby private sector rented accommodation. Read to full article here.

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Food Safety

Food Safety: Huntingdon business owners fined for food hygiene offences
Huntingdonshire District Council have successfully prosecuted two separate business owners for food hygiene offences.

Health & Safety

Health & Safety: HSE prosecutions in brief 13 August – 17 August
Welcome to HSE prosecutions in brief. A selection of the latest prosecutions by the HSE.

Opinion: Practitioner of the Future
The practitioner of the future is an article written by John Lynch (Chartered Health Safety Environmental & Media Consultant) that was submitted at a recent IOSH Conference. The article focuses on how to develop a balanced approach to health safety and the environment and their methodologies.

Housing

Housing: Landlord prosecuted for endangering lives
A landlord has been handed a suspended jail sentence for endangering lives after a mother, her partner and her eight-year-old daughter were poisoned by carbon monoxide at a flat in Lewisham.

Housing: Prevention is best cure for homeless
A new report sets out a cross-Government approach to ensuring that anyone at risk of homelessness gets help at the earliest possible stage to prevent them from losing their home.

Housing: Most affordable students accomodation locations revealed
Tuition fees of up to £9,000 are a daunting prospect for any student embarking on higher education, but new research from the UK’s leading flat and house share website SpareRoom.co.uk – based on more than 300,000 rental properties – can reveal the university towns and cities with the most affordable private-sector room rents, with the price of bills included, for students looking to make savings while studying.

Housing: Portsmouth landlord loses appeal over unsafe house
A city landlord who was fined for letting an unsafe house has failed in an appeal against the verdict. JL Homes Ltd of Victoria Road South, Southsea was told by magistrates last October to pay almost £12,000, after ignoring council orders to stop letting an unsafe student house.

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Public Health: Single cigarette costs Grantham man £300
North Kesteven District Council is stressing the importance of complying with smoke-free legislation after successfully prosecuting two men smoking in a work vehicle, five years after the law took effect.

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Spareroom: Why share?
Sharing can be a fun and inexpensive way to live. According to a survey conducted by SPAREROOM.co.uk, the UK’s leading flat and house share site, 58% of those asked said they chose to live in a flatshare for both social and financial reasons.

Spareroom: Landlords’ guide to renting by the room
With no sign of the current love affair with buy to let slowing down many rental markets are becoming saturated, so rents are being kept down by a high level of competition. By-the-room lets are one way of avoiding this and there are several reasons why you should consider renting by the room.

Spareroom: Lodgers, isn’t that all a bit 1970s?
If you’ve got an empty spare room you can earn up to £4,250 a year tax free by renting it out. Lodgers these days are often young professionals who can’t afford their own place but want somewhere comfortable to live along with a decent flatmate to share with.

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