"UCITA provides (consumers) protections equal to or more than current law, " said Carlyle "Connie" Ring, chairman of the NCCUSL committee that worked on the statute, in a written statement recently sent to all the members of NCCUSL ahead of the Denver meeting.

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The boss of a council which was criticised for failing to save girls from a child sex ring is to be called before a Parliamentary committee.

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The two Lloyds executives threw weight behind Chancellor George Osborne's announcement earlier in the day that the forthcoming Banking Reform Bill would "electrify" the ring-fence, as recommended by the banking standards committee.

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