MPs probe concerns over unregulated car-washes

Potentially polluting, exploitative, dangerous, probably unlicensed and almost certainly near you...

MPs have been investigating the explosion in the number of unregulated hand car-wash services that have sprung-up around the country amid concerns that workers are being abused and the environment damaged.

Simon Jones reports.

And there is more from Today in Parliament on BBC Radio 4 at 11.30pm.

26 June 2018

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The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn demands that heads should roll over the treatment of Windrush migrants.

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MPs spent more than six hours discussing the military action in Syria when they returned to Westminster following the Easter recess.

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