Essentially Local March-April 17
Essentially Local is bimonthly magazine that is distributed to homes and businesses in North Milton Keynes and South Northamptonshire. It includes a directory of local businesses, useful information and a calendar of local events.
Essentially Local is bimonthly magazine that is distributed to homes and businesses in North Milton Keynes and South Northamptonshire. It includes a directory of local businesses, useful information and a calendar of local events.
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3. Use of drive. Consider a more durable surface that is<br />
easy Community to clean if it takes a lot of use.<br />
4. Neighbours. Don’t lose value on your house and upset<br />
your neighbours with a completely ‘different’ look.<br />
4. Materials. There is a huge choice of surfaces. Concrete<br />
is cost effective and long lasting, while imprinted blocks<br />
give an authentic looking stone, slate or tile finish without<br />
the maintenance. Pushchair/ wheelchair users and those<br />
who don’t like weeding should avoid gravel! Consider<br />
a cellular structured surface for flood prone areas, so<br />
water escapes and cars can park without sinking. Natural<br />
products like bark could attract unwanted attention from<br />
your pets! Greener recycled aggregates like brick or glass<br />
can give some amazing effects.<br />
5. Conservation. Check planning restrictions – planners<br />
may make you replace unsuitable materials at your cost.<br />
Consumer holiday headache?<br />
Shopping for gifts and souvenirs is The European Consumer Centre<br />
an important part of our holidays and is part of an EU-wide network of 30<br />
most of the time we’re happy with our European Consumer Centres (ECCpurchases.<br />
What happens, though, if Net) who offer:<br />
you get home and find that the Gucci • Advice and information for UK<br />
sunglasses you bought in Italy are consumers who are having<br />
counterfeit, the phone you bought problems with a company based in<br />
in France does not work, or the hotel another European country;<br />
you Thank stayed you in to have Alan accidently Hickford of overcharged<br />
Hickford Construction<br />
• Intervention in disputes where the<br />
for supplying and you this are information. having trouble To discuss your consumer driveway and trader are unable to<br />
sorting with him out call the 01908 issue. 567 716 or 077<strong>17</strong> 508 reach 934a positive outcome.<br />
6. Deposits should be 10% of the total price;<br />
insist on a receipt.<br />
Building Services<br />
The UK European Consumer Centre<br />
is co-funded by the UK Government’s<br />
Department for Business, Innovation<br />
and Skills (BIS) and the European<br />
Commission.<br />
There is a European Consumer<br />
Centre in every EU country, as well as<br />
in Norway and Iceland, so you can get<br />
help and advice at home for problems<br />
that occurred abroad.<br />
So if you have shopped abroad<br />
and you need some help, contact the<br />
European Consumer Centre<br />
E-mail: ecc@tsi.org.uk<br />
Telephone +44(0)1268 886 690<br />
(lines open 9am – 4pm)<br />
Website: http://www.ukecc.net/<br />
contact-us/index.cfm<br />
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To 36 advertise please call 01908 380777<br />
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