News about Bill Griffiths

The Home Office has started an eight-week inquiry to see if there should be a licensing scheme to regulate crossbow use, ownership, and supply. Anybody wanting to buy one could face police checks - similar to gun control laws. There is currently no licensing system for owning a crossbow, and no such thing exists for obtaining a licence. However, it is unlawful for anyone under the age of 18 to buy or own one, and a person carrying a crossbow in public without a valid excuse can face up to four years in prison.

In a study that was released today, the Competitive and Markets Authority (CMA) warns that the hard sell of green heating products may prejudice customers. The authority, which is supposed to ban anti-consumer activities, is concerned that certain unscrupulous companies are exploiting a government target for the country to reach 'net zero' by 2050, resulting in consumer harm.

XCLUSIVE: The government's Boiler Upgrade Program, which was launched in May, gives homeowners up to £6,000 if they take out their gas boiler and install an air or ground source heat pump. However, families who have bought heat pumps that have already installed - or bought new builds where pumps were included in the package - have reported a number of issues related to the technology. Rita Trotman, 76, lives in a barn conversion bungalow near Torquay with her partner Eric (right) and has been forced to use blankets at night after her device broke down five months ago. Ed Gyseman, a retired engineer (with his family, inset), pleaded with homeowners to avoid heat pumps, claiming they are a 'folly product,' Ian Howard and his wife Carole (left), both 59, live in New Alresford, Hampshire. During a renovation project, he installed a heat pump to future proof his house, but he was left with two log burners to keep his house warm.

If homeowners rip out their gas boiler and install an air or ground source heat pump, the Boiler Upgrade Scheme, which was launched in May, gives homeowners up to £6,000. We've heard from home owners who have bought heat pumps or bought new builds in which groovy pumps were already installed - a variety of issues inherent with the technology.

Sana Muhammad (left), 35, was eight months pregnant when Ramanodge Unmathallegadoo (right) burst into her house and shot an arrow into her stomach in November 2018. Ms Muhammad was hospitalized and died, but her unborn son (inset) was born by the Caesarean section and survived. Unmathallegadoo, a senior nurse at Newham General Hospital in east London, was found guilty of murder in November 2019 and sentenced to life with a minimum term of 33 years. According to a domestic homicide investigation (DHR) report, the Met Police missed opportunities to shield Ms Muhammad from 2012 to 2018, including binning a 'burglary kit' attached to Unmathallegadoo, which was located outside his ex-wife's house the year before the murder.