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POUNDLAND has banned the sale of kitchen knives across the UK in response to the crime wave hitting the country.
The retailer stopped selling the weapons in London last week and is set to extend the ban to all 850 of its UK and Ireland stores by the end of the year.
The move follows 35 people being fatally stabbed in London since the beginning of the year as violence in the capital spikes.
Austin Cook Poundland's retail director said: "We have committed to take knives out of all our stores, starting with London, which we have done with immediate effect a couple of weeks ago, and we will take them out of the rest of the country by October.
"Since I've come into my role we have had a lot of feedback from our store colleagues that we are retailing knives that can have the wrong ultimate purpose for them.
"We want to take them off our shelves and take them out of the hands of the wrong customers and, whilst there is a sales implication for us, it's much more important to us to protect both our colleagues and our customers from any risk.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6069878/poundland-stop-selling-knives-london-stabbings/
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Town-centre pound store prosecuted for knife sale
Management and training procedures at the town-centre branch of a national retail chain were questioned when the company was prosecuted for the sale of a knife to under-age customers.
Poundworld Retail Ltd appeared at Croydon Magistrates' Court on 16 May and was fined £4,000 and ordered to pay costs after being found guilty of selling a knife to a person under the age of 18. The total penalty, including victim surcharge, amounted to £8,520.
The court heard that, as part of a test-purchasing exercise conducted by the council's trading standards department, two 14-year-old volunteers went to the store's North End branch on 28 May 2015 and, after selecting a kitchen knife from a display, took it for payment to one of the tills.
The sales assistant, on only his second day at work in the store, failed to challenge the youngsters and the sale was completed.
http://news.croydon.gov.uk/town-centre-pound-store-prosecuted-for-knife-sale/
'You cannot be soft on this': Boris Johnson calls for stop and search increase to combat London knife crime surge
Boris Johnson has called for an increased use of stop and search powers to combat knife crime following a spate of fatal stabbings in London.
The Foreign Secretary warned against "going soft" as he insisted that Scotland Yard and Sadiq Khan "come down like a ton of bricks" on gang leaders.
His comments came after teenager Sami Sidhom, 18, was knifed to death on Monday night in the capital's third killing in two days.
Mr Johnson said when he was Mayor of London he adopted a dual approach that boosted stop and search incidents while mentoring young people to prevent them getting sucked into gang violence.
In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, he told current London mayor Sadiq Khan: "You cannot be soft on this."
London murder rate overtakes New York as knife crime rises
LONDON (Reuters) - London police investigated more murders than their New York counterparts did over the last two months, statistics show, as the British capital's mayor vowed to fight a "violent scourge" on the streets.
There were 15 murders in London in February against 14 in New York, according to London's Metropolitan Police Service and the New York Police Department. For March, 22 murders were investigated in London, with 21 reports in New York.
(Score: 5, Touché) by RandomFactor on Wednesday May 01 2019, @02:02PM (7 children)
I....I am not sure how to respond. My post was supposed to be sarcastic and snarky. If it just matches reality I'm not sure where that leaves us.
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 01 2019, @02:26PM (4 children)
It leaves you not in the UK, for which you can thank your lucky stars.
The UK is finally conquered. It has become a Third World shithole with an icing of leftist totalitarian bullshit. Call it sef-castration. What the hell is going on with Brexit? Stalling so it simply doesn't happen?
(Score: 3, Touché) by driverless on Wednesday May 01 2019, @02:41PM (2 children)
You forgot to mention the bit about blacks and/or muslims taking over and whites being exterminated. Also I believe saying something about the EU and/or UN is required at this point.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 01 2019, @03:07PM (1 child)
The UN was already mentioned above. They said you don't need knives to eat a proper diet of insects.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 01 2019, @05:26PM
In Islamic London, insects eat you! (as you rot in the gutter, having been stabbed to death)
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 01 2019, @05:33PM
Again with the leftist....you people never get this, do you?
The people running the 'spectacle' aren't leftist or rightist, they're 'Them'ists, but will be quite happy to know that people like you still fall for the old left/right BS 'labels' as it means they can count on their tactical use to forment division amongst the unteren schichten.
(Score: 4, Funny) by jmorris on Wednesday May 01 2019, @05:27PM
> 'm not sure where that leaves us.
I'll tell ya. Clown. World.
Honk Honk.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Wednesday May 01 2019, @07:34PM
Especially since meat is only one of things you cut with a knife. The knife is like one of the best things invented, just short of sliced bread and the sandwich.
No knife means some very limited culinary possibilities.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.