A Commons Select Committee hearing scheduled for this month had been postponed for four months. Following a request for more time to prepare from objectors, a mutually suitable date for the hearing was not available in the parliamentary spill-over period in October.
Following a massive response to their letter in last week’s Antiques Trade Gazette Kent dealers Georgina McKinnon and David Jackson Grant have organised a dealers’ meeting at the Detling showground on June 30.
Autumn date for Kent Bills
UK: The Passage through parliament of the Kent County Council and Medway Bills – designed to regulate the trade in all forms of second-hand goods in the county – has been held up until the autumn.
