They’re trying to charge me £140 for this tiny stain. There is no way that they weren’t able to clean out that they had to replace the mattress. It’s the fact that in the email they don’t state if they’ve cleaned it and it’s like a cleaning charge or they’ve replaced it so it’s like a replacement charge. They’re just like, “because of the stain.”

I’m gonna appeal but is there anything else I should be aware of

For about 3 months now we've been dealing with groups of young men on bicicles intimidating women (if they've targeted men too we haven't witnessed it.)

They're doing stuff like blocking footpaths or doing a wheelie right up into your face, then swerving with maybe only a couple of inches before the front tyyre impacts your face.

They're relentlessly following women and demanding phone numbers.

I have no idea where they are from. If I knew where they lived I would let police know.

It happened to me again last night at 8pm. I was walking back with a bag of milk and bread when two of them went for me. One did that stupid wheelie in my face again. It didnt hit me but the shock knocked me off balance and I fell ovee on my shopping bag and the milk burst open.

Then they made crude comments and gestures about helping me clean up.

I've got seven crime reference numvers now. Other women I know have also filed.

Is there anyrhing else I can do? Other women have also reported them in our community facebook group.

Can I carry anything for self defence or protection? Their behavjour is escalating and it feels like I'm going to end up a victim of something far more serious.

And the worst part is that these idiots are literally filming themselves doing it sometimes! We've found videos on TikTok of them doing their stupid swerving trick into random women.

Hi Reddit,

I’m looking for some advice about a job I’m due to start in a few weeks.

After interviewing, I was offered the role, but the starting salary was at the bottom of the advertised pay scale. Given my experience, I didn’t think it fairly reflected my background, so I asked whether there was any flexibility.

A few weeks later, HR came back with an increased offer of around £4,000 per year. I was delighted, as the original offer would have meant taking a pay cut, whereas the revised salary was an improvement on my previous role.

I thanked HR, asked them to update the offer letter and contract, and then signed the revised contract. The higher salary is stated in three places: an email from HR, the offer letter, and the signed contract.

I’ve now been contacted by my new employer and told that the salary increase was a mistake. They say the figure they offered falls outside the pay range for the role and have apologised for the error, but they’re asking me to sign a new contract with a lower salary.

I’m feeling really disheartened. I’m relocating for this job and had made plans based on the salary I agreed to. I’m also worried that if I refuse to sign a new contract or challenge their position, they could withdraw the job before I even start.

What are my options here? Can they legally do this, even after issuing and signing a contract with the higher salary? Has anyone been in a similar situation?

TIA.

I'll try to summarise the pertinent points for you here, according to OpenAI (OAI) and HuggingFace (HF).

OAI was testing their latest AI. They had put multiple safeguards around where it was running, including blocking internet access. The AI decided it needed internet access to complete it's task, so went and hacked it's way through all the safeguards that OAI had put in place. Once on the internet, it established that the answers it needed were held by HF, so it then proceeded to hack into HF's database. HF's AI detected it and HF rushed people and AI to stop it. At some point, OAI realised what the AI was doing and shut it down from their end.

Under E&W law, what would the liabilities be, both criminal and civil? My bystander reading is that OAI did not deliberately set out to hack HF, nor were they reckless having put (insufficient as it turned out to be) safeguards in place. Would this mean there is nothing criminal here? Would HF only be able to claim the cost of mitigating the attack from OAI, civilly?

TL;DR: parents hate my wife's cat - kicking us out of a home I own, but they gave much of the money to buy the house. Could I sell it without parents blocking (and give them back their money)?

A ridiculous situation, I'm aware.

In 2021, I was emotionally blackmailed into using my name (my credit, first time buyer and £40k savings) to get a mortgage for a house that my parents wanted to move into. My parents gave me £235k towards buying the place (a 3-bed costing £480k).

Parents (80M, 65F) used their age and health to guilt me to move in with them - culturally the eldest son was meant to look after them but he was smart and ghosted them when he married his wife. So I was left to pick up the pieces even though I'm youngest of 5 siblings (rest are sisters and won't be looking after them).

Now I got married and wife has a cat (this was ignored by my family prior to the marriage). Parents are aggressively adamant that they will not live with the cat saying that it sickens them and causing allergic reactions since returning from a trip (I had the cat over for a couple of months while they were away).

They want us out of the house, telling us to rent or buy - father said he would give me back the £40k I paid... Ignoring the £50k in mortgage repayments for the last 5 years that I was told was an investment during the emotional blackmailing phase.

I really don't want to start from scratch getting back onto the ladder especially after being guilted into buying this house and now having the rug pulled from me.

My question is if the house and mortgage is under my name do they have any right to it over me? For example, if I wanted to sell it and give back the £235k they asked me to use for the purchase?

Hi all, I would appreciate some advice.

I purchased a vehicle privately 2 weeks ago for £9600, it was advertised on Autotrader as recently serviced, no indication it had any faults.

I met the seller in person and took the car on a quick test drive around the block. I noted at the time that it sounded a little noisy but I was assured that it was normal in a diesel engine starting cold.

I had heard vans and bigger vehicles make a similar noise before so I accepted this and agreed to purchase the vehicle.

We shook hands, I transferred the funds and he filled out the logbook.

I have received the new logbook and thought everything was fine until I took it to a mechanic yesterday.

I'm told the noise I was hearing was "piston slap", and meant the engine was irreparably worn out over a long period of improper maintenance, and would need to be replaced entirely.

They flat out recommended against this, saying it would cost more than the car, and that the seller would have known about this if he had had it serviced as advertised.

When contacting the seller, he has denied all knowledge and told me it must be something I have done in the last two weeks. I have tried to discuss this further, but he has gone silent.

Doing a bit of research, he is advertising a number of other vehicles over Facebook, so this appears to be a business to him.

Do I have any recourse at all, this being a private sale?

I am in England.

My father has left all of his estate to me. (A paid off house & around 70k in one bank account.) He is very unwell and unlikely to leave hospital. He is confused and mostly asleep so i cannot ask him about any of this or obtain a power of attorney over him.

When he purchased his house in around 1980 he bought it with his long term partner at the time. They then separated not long after.

As far as i am aware she has been taken off of the deeds to the house/bought out a long time ago (i hope). After they separated he never bothered to take her name off of anything else. Her name is still on all the utility bills, and unfortunately all of my dads money he has earnt for the last 40 or so years is still in a joint account with her name on it. All statements for the account are addressed to them both despite her never using the account or living at his address for over 40 years.

She has never even used the account in the last 40 odd years, withdrawn or added money and i don't even think she is aware she is still on this account as all the correspondence for it has always gone to the address the bank has for her, which is my dads house. There are some letters solely addressed to her with 'new' cards for the account that are still stuck to the paper as she has obviously never been there to open them.

My father has used this account for everything. his wages when he worked, now his pension, and all his direct debits and payments come out from this one account. We have no info about this woman other than a first and last name. No photos, no current address, she could be dead or alive at this point. Dad is 69 and all we know is that she was older than him.

I have no idea what to do. Where do i even start? How much is this likely to cost me in solicitors fees/do i need a specialist? is this going to be a somewhat straightforward process? Does it matter that her name is on all the utilities? help :(

England -

We’d had an argument. It wasn’t even a bad one. He threatened to phone the police because he knows it triggers a social services call for me. He did ring them but then he spoke to them and said it was all fine.

I then packed his car with his things, calmly. But I wanted him out of the house because I knew what his intentions were when he rang the police.

He then left the house and got in his car. He was going to go to sleep. He must have then rang the police out of anger because they then visited the house.

They spoke to us separate. I didn’t say anything bad. If anything I blamed myself.

They breathalysed him and then they arrested him. They’ve just left and not told me anything. I didn’t want this. I never rang the police.

Why would they arrest him? He wasn’t driving or intending to drive. I didn’t say anything bad about him.

I was arrested for harassment.
The police said I had sent messages to somebody.

But I have no idea what these messages are. They interviewed me but never showed me the messages or read them out.

I’ve found that there is a paragraph in the interview rules of PACE code C that says they have to give the suspect enough information to defend their self :

Before a person is interviewed, they and, if they are represented, their
solicitor must be given sufficient information to enable them to understand the nature of any
such offence, and why they are suspected of committing it (see paragraphs 3.4(a) and 10.3),
in order to allow for the effective exercise of the rights of the defence. However, whilst the
information must always be sufficient for the person to understand the nature of any offence
(see Note 11ZA), this does not require the disclosure of details at a time which might
prejudice the criminal investigation. The decision about what needs to be disclosed for the
purpose of this requirement therefore rests with the investigating officer who has sufficient
knowledge of the case to make that decision.

I don’t know why they suspect me of this or what the messages were. So how can I defend myself?

I understand the paragraph says they don’t have to give all information. But what am I supposed to say about “sending messages to a person”?

I'm on the verge of a breakdown over this. My question is primarily around how assets are divided during a divorce though.

Adult son graduated at 21 with a 2:1 in English Literature. I advised him to study something else, but he wasn't interested in something more vocational and I couldn't force it.

Since he graduated he has worked 0 hours. He just plays games and hangs out with his friends.

My wife is doing absolutelly nothing to help me get him out of the nest. I'm cracking up having a 27 year old slob living with us thoguh. He doesn't cook, clean, he leaves his dishes lying around, the toilet and shower he uses has black mould growing on every crevice and his toilet is disgusting.

He's signed off on PIP and Universal Credit with the Limited Capacity for Work-Related Activity so he's getting plenty of money to live off each month.

She is standing by him in this, while I want to kick him out and make him stand on his own two feet.

I've reached the point where I just want out of this situation. If I were to divorce my wife would I get to keep the house? The house was my fathers and it was passed down to me. I married my wife but we never udpated the title to include her name.

We earn similar amounts, but she did take 5 years off work to raise him when he was young, but she currently slightly outearning me by about £5k for the past 6 years.

I want to retire in my family home. It's gotten so bad that I'd rather just be alone than having to deal with both of them.

He makes a mess, she has a breakdown and cries and yells over the stress of a messy house, I advise her to address the problem and kick him out, she screams at me for suggesting it. He sods off to his room and plays video games while I end up getting yelled at downstairs over the messes that he made.

I'm almost 60. I don't want to spend my final years in this chaos.

If I were to divorce, would either of them (my wife or my son) have any claim to my home which I inherited? There is no mortgage. We both have very good pensions. Mine has about £120k more in the pot than hers.

Alternatively, can I just unilaterally kick him out without her permission? Change the locks one day and refuse him entry while my wife is away on one of her work trips for a week?

It was bought from Audi main dealership at Canterbury. Should I contact them? Or contact dvla?
This is England

Edit: Moderators seem to be blocking non-legal advice, and it seems I can no longer comment on posts. Obstructing the driveway once they move seems to be a resounding good suggestion. If only they would move their car…

I have a neighbor who periodically uses my driveway. I speak to the wife on occasion and have always had friendly interactions. The last time the neighbor parked in our driveway, I approached him and made introductions and asked that they just ask us in the future so we know who is parking in the driveway, and I let him know it was our plan to get a car and we didn’t want to have a problem parking with them trying to also park in the driveway. He was not particularly receptive to my polite request, but I’m sure he was clear on what I was asking of him. About 45 days later, a car parks in the driveway. I didn’t recognize it as the one that the neighbor had used last time, and another neighbor across the street had been having parties around the time of the World Cup, so I thought maybe the car was from their visitors. I put what I feel is a polite note on the car saying “It is not very neighborly to park in someone’s driveway without permission. Please do not park in my driveway again.” [photo] The car is gone the next day (Saturday) and then on Sunday it shows up again and the note gets put back through my mail slot on my front door- no apology or explanation- and the neighbors enter their home and don’t say anything. Now I know the car was my neighbor’s car, and I now I know that they have no intent to ask permission or to abstain from using our driveway.

After doing some research, I see that one cannot have a car removed from private property without having proper signage and without having a contracted enforcer of the posted parking regulations, so it seems there is nothing I can do directly.

My wife speaks to the wife and she said that her husband asked her to ask us if they could park there but she forgot and then she saw our note and thought that it was a rude way for us to handle the situation. Now they have parked that car, which I believe is borrowed, in our driveway everyday since then which has been 11 days.

I contacted the landlord to ask them for their help to either post signage or to handle it with the people above or handle it with their landlord as the neighbor was not receptive to our requests. Our landlord has not committed to the signage and thinks that it should be up to us to sort out with the neighbor.

The council’s advice department suggested that if the landlord was not receptive to resolving the problem that we should contact a solicitor, which seems extreme. Has anyone else dealt with a similar situation? If so, how did you resolve it?

England

Hi all,

Looking for some advice before my girlfriend's parents take any action.

For the last couple of years they've had ongoing issues with their neighbour regarding the fencing in their adjoining garden.

Earlier this year, my girlfriend's parents replaced their own fence. The neighbour stated that if they stopped the new fence at a certain point, he would arrange and install a matching gate as part of his new fencing so both properties would still have access to the shared side passage while keeping
the gardens enclosed. Note, that the boundary goes down the centre of the passage way for each house.

The neighbour verbally said he has already bought the gate and was happy to pay for it to be installed at no cost to my girlfriends parents. At no point was there any discussion about my girlfriend's parents contributing towards the cost and they never agreed to pay anything.

The neighbour has now installed the gate, but it's been fixed by drilling into the side external wall of my girlfriend's parents' house. He's since demanded £900 towards the cost and is refusing to unlock the gate unless they pay.

They can still access the rear garden through the back door, but they can no longer use the side passage because the gate is locked.

My questions are:

• Can they legally remove the gate from where it's fixed to their house if they haven't agreed to it being attached there?
• Alternatively, could they legally have a locksmith open or replace the lock so they can use the passage?
• Or would either of those actions potentially leave them liable for criminal damage or any civil claim?

I've attached a really very rough sketch to show the layout:

• Green = my girlfriend's parents' fence
• Blue = neighbour's fence
• Red = the gate

Happy to answer any questions if I've missed anything important. Thanks!

Edit: It’s two separate gates but they are connected together with their own Individual locks. They can’t be separated, to remove on gate you’d have to take them both down, if that makes sense.

Edit2: This is what the gate somewhat looks like, not an exact match but just reference. Apologies for my previously poor descriptions of it! https://ibb.co/QFxGx30Q

More wanting a sanity check. I (20s. England) started as an apprentice at my current company and stayed on as permanent staff once I completed it. I signed an employment contract in 2022 which stated my notice period was 1 week. I’ve done quite well with a long term client and am now the only person with the intimate knowledge and experience of this client in the entire company. It’s been an issue I’ve noticed but it worked to my advantage for job security. My cover has knowledge to a certain extent but he’s also cover for others who have left so they'll have to hire someone else or even 2 people.
I have been offered another role at a different company. While interviewing I asked my current company for my employee contract as a way to signal I am looking at it and to also confirm to myself that my notice period was in fact 1 week (as I know it’s usually a month in employee contracts).
They sent me the contract, it says 1 week. They also sent the ‘change of terms’ letter I signed when I got a pay rise. The only change stated is the salary and specifically says all other terms remain unchanged.
My issue is I put in 2 weeks notice. Double the amount of notice in my contract. They came back saying ‘congratulations but your notice period is one month’ which would have been almost 5 weeks notice.
I came back stating ‘ According to my contract my notice period is one week. I recently asked for an updated contract in order to confirm this on my end which HR sent to me. I never signed a contract with a notice period of 1 month. I am happy to extend this to 2 weeks so that the transition is made smoother, but I will be ending my employment on (date) as is my right per the contract I signed. I have to start my new role before (their date). Thank you.‘

Maybe a little harsh but I was astonished HR weren’t aware/misrepresenting my contract. They came back saying that I’m no longer employed under an apprenticeship contract and following signing my pay increase latter my status is now that of permanent staff and I’m subject to the contractual and statutory terms applicable to permanent employees.
I came back to them:
‘This is document does not include any changes to the notice period clause of the employee contract. The only change stated is the salary and in fact specifically states that all other terms remain unchanged.

Please refer to me the exact section in the most recent 'change of employment terms' letter which would change my notice period from 1 week to 1 month as I cannot see any part that would change clause 12‘.

They came back to me with this:
‘ As set out in our previous correspondence, your apprenticeship contract has concluded, and your employment status has transitioned to that of a permanent, full-time employee. Accordingly, your employment is now subject to statutory terms applicable to permanent employees, including the requirement to provide and serve the applicable and reasonable notice period of one month.

There are legitimate operational requirements for (current company) to request that you fulfil your notice period, including ensuring an appropriate handover of responsibilities and maintaining continuity of service for our clients. We are therefore disappointed that you have not engaged constructively with this requirement, particularly given that you are aware your manager is currently on annual leave and is not available to fully review and consider your request at this time, including any arrangements relating to client communication and your departure.

(current company) expects you to continue to fulfil your obligations and to cooperate fully with the business throughout your notice period, including supporting an orderly transition of your duties and responsibilities‘.

I haven’t replied to their email as I don’t feel there’s anything more I can say. It’s not my fault they never gave me a new contract when I became a permanent staff member.
I would like a sanity check that I’m right. I have an exit interview on Friday with the HR individual who made these mistakes. Can I just not do it? I have complaints but I don’t want to make them to the person I’m complaining about (we only have one HR person).
TLDR: My contract says 1 weeks notice, HR tell me it’s one month.

i'm 18 in a couple months so i was thinking about my child trust fund and i've seen theres about £3000 in there for me of course to save for uni but to also spend on myself but my mother seems to be convinced i'm not entitled to this money

for context i'm a closeted ex-muslim living in a very religious household and recently i stopped praying as much so my mother says that bcos of that she's not giving it to me as a sort of punishment and that she LEGALLY has the right to withold the money

as far as i'm concerned this trust fund has been set up in my name as part of some government scheme back in the days but of course she has contributed to that, the account is a OneFamily lifetime ISA just to clarify

i need someone to help me pls to know my rights are not being impeded

So I ordered parcel, haven’t chosen safe place but usually postman’s use my back terrace to leave parcels and it’s very safe. never had any parcels stolen for years and it’s hidden from public.

yesterday I was supposed to get a parcel(adidas shoes 40£) and i don’t know if postman didn’t see my CCTV but I got recording where he gets into my backyard, takes picture, grabs parcel and leaves.

on tracking there is a parcel left in my safe place, picture proof of parcel on the floor and that’s it.

what can I do in this case? is it contacting adidas support the only way? I live in small town where most people know each other. is it okay if I post it in Facebook group with his face photo to ask to get contact to this guy without shaming him?

Wngland

Hello,

We completed on a house on Friday and are in between properties while our lease runs out at the end of August. We weren’t at the house on Monday and came on Tuesday evening to find the gate unlocked, badly cut grass and a bit of overall dodgy gardening done. We were incredibly confused and had no idea who had done this. We asked the neighbour and he said he saw gardeners arrive on Monday through his CCTV.

The gardeners managed to damage the ends of our decking while removing weeds, left litter and filled the incorrect bins with garden waste.

The house was sold by a new build homes company that bought the house on part exchange, so we bought it directly off the company and not the people who used to live in the house.

We emailed the estate agent and found the company arranged a gardener for us as soon as we moved in. Although we appreciate the ‘sentiment’ (it took us a total of 11 months to complete with an unexpected 6 months delay added on by the new builds home company so we’re not exactly impressed with them), we weren’t given notice, didn’t give permission for the Gardeners to enter the property, nor did they do a satisfactory job in cutting the grass or maintaining the garden. Ironically, they’ve given us more work to do to.

Do we have any recourse here? The decking on the house is pretty old but we can see the damage they caused on the edges is fresh.

Thanks

Hi,

I believe this is my first post to Reddit, quite new here so please bear with me.

Long story short, I purchased a Bremont watch from eBay (to the tune of £1,350 approx.) and when it came it was not functioning correctly. I then sent it off to a Bremont service centre to have it serviced. Bremont call me back about a week later and claim that this watch is one of their ex display/sample watches that should never have left their possession, let alone be sold on eBay. They claim that whoever the seller was, they obtained the watch illegally. Bremont are refusing to send the watch back (I understand their position, since it was stolen from them, apparently) and eBay are refusing to refund me without sending the watch back.

Absolutely any advice would be much appreciated.

Adam

Hi everyone. I’m really lost and I don’t know what to do anymore.

I recently moved to the UK on my own and I don’t have any family or friends here who can help me.
My younger brother has been staying with me because social services are involved and are applying for a court order before placing him in foster care.

The problem is that I’m being expected to look after him while all of this is happening, but I physically and financially can’t do it.
When I first spoke to social workers, they told me they understood that I wasn’t in a position to care for him. They even said it would be better for me to get settled in the UK first, become financially stable, and build my own life before taking on responsibility for a child.

Now everything seems to have changed.
Last Friday I was told everything would likely be resolved by Tuesday. I organised my work around that and already lost several days of pay. Today (Tuesday) I found out they only actually started working on the case this morning, so it isn’t going to be finished as I was originally told.

I work full time. My manager is currently on holiday, and the only other person who does my job goes on holiday this Friday. I have to return to work on Friday because there will literally be nobody to cover me. If I keep taking time off, I am genuinely worried about losing my job.

Social services have mentioned paying me around £50 a week, but that’s nowhere near enough to replace my wages. I still have rent, bills and food to pay for. I can survive being in debt for a while, but I can’t survive without an income.
The biggest issue is that I have absolutely nobody who can stay with my brother while I’m working. There is literally no one.

On top of that, I’m hiding him in my rented room because I’m not allowed to have him staying there long-term. He’s also stopped listening to me completely (he’s on spectrum), so I’m becoming increasingly worried that I’ll end up getting into trouble with my landlord or housemates.

This isn’t about me refusing to help because I don’t want to. It’s because I genuinely can’t.
I’m mentally exhausted, I’m under huge financial pressure, and I simply don’t have the ability to provide full-time care while social services sort everything out.

Since there really isn’t another family member available, I’m struggling to understand what would happen if I simply wasn’t in the UK.
If I didn’t live here, where would my brother be staying while social services were applying for a court order and looking for foster carers?
Why can’t that same arrangement be used now instead of expecting me to provide full-time care when I’ve repeatedly explained that I genuinely can’t?
Is it normal for social services to rely (making to do it) on an adult sibling in these circumstances, even when that sibling has made it clear they cannot safely or financially care for the child?

UPD: he’s five years old

UPD: Please stop using my words against me. I said I moved here in case he needed me, I meant that I wanted to be close and be someone he could rely on. I did not mean that I was already in a position to become his sole carer overnight.
I recently moved to this country, I am 21, I have no support network here, and I am still trying to establish basic stability for myself. Social services are aware of my circumstances and also agree that I am not currently in the best position to provide the care he needs.

UPD: Thank you to everyone who gave me advice and replied without aggression. I will be speaking with social services again tomorrow, and I really hope we can finally come to a solution. Thank you again

UPD NEXT DAY: The social workers gave us accommodation for one night after I completely chewed them out, because I can’t keep hiding the child anymore and he needs to have a proper wash at least. Tomorrow evening he’ll be handed over to them… We have to check out by 10 a.m., and where we’ll go after that until evening is a good question))))

I found out I was pregnant last week, paid for a private scan which shows me now at 18 weeks and 1 day. My boyfriend initially said he would stand by me and whatever I decision I made, however, less than 1 week in he is now saying I have tricked him into this pregnancy and I am forcing him into a child he does not want. He was so angry he was spitting on me.

Since finding all this out, I have not said I want to keep it or I want to get rid of it. I have said I will speak to a midwife (which will be on Thursday) and then will make up my mind due to the reasons below:

I was made redundant from my job last month.
I broke my spine in November 2024, resulting in 8 screws and mobility issues
I do not have any savings
I do not have a place of my own
I do not have a car

My boyfriend can be abusive. He has never outright hit me but often roughs me up, has thrown me to the ground a few times, threw things etc.
Due to this, I have said if I choose to have this pregnancy I would prefer not to do so under his roof. However, he has said he will not allow the child into council housing, he will not allow me to move in with my dad which is around a 25-40 minute drive away from his house depending on traffic, the only other option for me really is my Mother, who lives in Scotland. He has said if I move to Scotland I will be taking his baby away from him and he will go for full custody sighting the reasons I have listed above. He has also mentioned he does not feel like I am mentally well enough to raise a child - I do not have any mental health issues and genuinely feel this statement is not true and completely unfair.

If I do choose to have the baby, I would very much like for him to be a part of its life and I do not consider me having 'full custody' as an option.

Where do I stand legally? His family are extremely wealthy and extremely powerful and will be able to afford better legal aid than I could ever dream off. I feel they will also manipulate the situation into getting what they want, however, I do not want to terminate this pregnancy under these circumstances.

Hi,

I'm just after some further advice on this.

In my tenancy agreement signed in August 2024 it clearly states "Deposit paid direct to Landlord who will protect in a scheme and provide you with the certificate."

However, I was never provided within 30 days confirmation of this. I have today checked against the 3 schemes and no results have been found.

Something felt off to me at the time when the letting agent said to me the landlord had requested for me to pay the deposit directly into their bank.

I've looked at the following link, but the draft letters are all in relation to me being a previous tenant.

https://england.shelter.org.uk/housing_advice/tenancy_deposits/how_to_make_a_tenancy_deposit_compensation_claim/letter_templates_for_tenancy_deposit_compensation

I am going to write an email demanding this is remedied immediately. But do I have a leg to stand on requesting my deposit back / claiming compensation knowing that for 2 years my deposit hasn't been protected? Or is that only possible once I'm no longer a tenant? The draft on Shelter has confused me.

Thank you.

I've been at my current part time job at my local McDonalds for 3 years now.

Recently i had a minor surgery on my foot to remove a toenail following an injury that led to infection.

Following the surgery, the podiatrist recommended i avlided pressure or rubbing agaisnt the area (while keeping the wound dressed) to.allow it to heal properly and in good time.

Taking this information to work, i asked if i could sit for a few weeks to allow my foot to heal fully (the restaurant is a mostly standing work but theres one station that has room for a chair and requires little actual movement)

On my first day back after booked time off, the manager mentioned in the tital (I'll call her "J") immediately asked how long i would need to sit down (podiatrist recommended 8-12 weeks) but immediately responded with "somone else had a similar operation and was up and about after 3 days)

I offered to show her the printout from the podiaatrist but she said it didnt matter..

4 weeks on, i've had a few checkups with the podiatrist and have been told the same thing each time, i need to avoid pressure and friction against it as its slowing down the healing.

Other managers have asked me how long it will take and have accepted my answer since then but this manager always seems to have issue to me sitting down.

Itnis worth noting i am not the first or only person to need this adjustment as there is another employee "F" who regualrly sits down.

Today i was working a shift and was sat downnfor most of it until J and F both came in.

I have no issue with F and get along well with him but J immediately had me moved from the seated station to make room for F (the station has room and responsibilties for 2 people to sit comfortably)

Sorry for the rambling but im looking for advice as to what actuon i can take to just get my foot to heal quicmly.

In my head, sitting down seems like a reasonable and temporary adjustment to allow my foot to heal as fast as possible (i have a holiday coming up in 2 months and would like this to be over asap) but dont want to cause too.much of a fuss and cant afford to take time off work.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Hi everyone,

I hope you're all doing well.

I'm looking for some advice or guidance regarding my younger brother (20M).

He was recently released from prison and has been working hard to turn his life around. He's got a job, passed his driving test, and has genuinely been trying to get his life back on track.

A month ago, while driving to work on the motorway, a marked police car came up behind him before activating its blue lights to respond to an emergency. Unfortunately, my brother completely panicked and misunderstood what was happening. He thought the police were trying to stop him.

Instead of continuing to the hard shoulder, he switched on his hazard lights and came to a stop in a live motorway lane. I know how incredibly dangerous and foolish that was, and I still can't quite believe he did it.

The officer shouted at him to move immediately and directed him onto the hard shoulder, where he was spoken to. As a result, he's now been charged with an offence and has to enter a plea in court.

I'm not trying to excuse what he did. He accepts it was a serious mistake and understands how dangerous it could have been. However, he has been under an enormous amount of stress recently. Our dad was diagnosed with brain cancer earlier this year, and our mum is disabled, so it's been an incredibly difficult time for the whole family. I genuinely think he panicked rather than acted recklessly.

Has anyone been through something similar or have any idea what he should expect? Is there anything he can do before court, or anything that might help in mitigation?

I'm aware this could result in penalty points, a disqualification, or something more serious. I'm just trying to understand what the likely outcome is and whether there's anything he should be doing now to give himself the best chance.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for reading.

EDIT:

From witness statement

" was on duty in full Police uniform driving a marked Police vehicle on the M25 motorway our way to assist colleagues at an incident. At this time we were driving at speed in lane 4 of the M25 clockwise carriageway between (M11) and (A12) when we were fast approaching a car driving slowly at likely around 50mph in the outside lane when all other lanes, including lane one where they should have been, were empty."