Stuart Charles Pryde and Lisa Edwina Pryde, directors of children's playgroup,The Firehouse Play Centres Limited, in Waltham Abbey, Essex, have both been disqualified for six years for failing to keep proper records. The disqualifications follow an investigation by the Insolvency Service.

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Michael Anthony Joyce, also known as Tony Joyce, director of a cheque converting business, has been banned from running a company for 12 years for laundering cheques for rogue builders and for taking in a cheque from a client when his business was already insolvent and unlikely to honour the cheque.

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Linda Ann McCracken, a director of Titcombe Garage Ltd, a vehicle recovery and repair garage in Swindon, has been disqualified from being a company director for six years for paying herself and a friend ahead of other creditors.

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Mark Edmund Kean of Stockport and Paul Bagguley of Buxton, directors of Towerfield Services Ltd, which traded as Britannia Laundry from Stockport, have both been banned from being directors for six years for failing to pay taxes or keep proper books and records.

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Three unscrupulous companies that continued a land banking scam previously carried out by Century Land - itself shut down for ripping off the public - and sold carbon credits to investors, have been wound up following an Insolvency Service investigation.

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Philip Secunda, a director of Town & Country Letting & Management Limited (T&CL&M), based in Leigh on Sea, Essex has been disqualified from acting as a company director for seven years for failing to secure and pass on tenants deposits.

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Abdulkadir Aydin, the sole director of Goldtrail Travel Limited Travel ('Goldtrail), a holiday company based in New Malden, Surrey, has received a 15-year director disqualification - the maximum possible term - from the High Court in London for gross mismangement of the company's affairs.

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David Robert Shannon, 50, a disqualified director has been sentenced to six months imprisonment, suspended for two years, and 150 hours of unpaid work for controlling a company against court orders.

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Brett Anthony Flack, director of electrical contracting company, Flack Building Contractors Limited, based in Woodford Green, Essex, has been disqualified for four years for failing to pay taxes. The disqualification follows an investigation by The Insolvency Service.

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Kismet Miah, who ran The Red Fox Indian Cuisine Limited, a restaurant in Tarporley, in Cheshire, has been disqualified from acting as a director for eight years, after he failed to pay a fine for employing illegal workers - and closed down his business instead.

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Stephen Bloch, the director of Centenary Holdings III Limited (previously Seagram Distillers Plc), has been disqualified for eight years by the High Court of Session, Edinburgh, for denuding the company of cash assets of £15m over an 18 month period.

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European Medical Assistance (EMA), a company which passed itself off as a worldwide emergency medical assistance provider but had no ability to provide these services, has been wound up in the public interest by the High Court in London, following an investigation by The Insolvency Service.

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Alexis Jon Stone, a director of Bike Insurer Services Ltd, a motorbike insurance comparison website that traded from premises in Formby, Merseyside, has been disqualified for eight years for paying himself or his American company ahead of other creditors. The disqualification follows an investigation by The Insolvency Service.

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Stephen Charles Aldous, director of timber merchant Forestsale Limited, in Ipswich, has been disqualified from acting as a director for ten years for failing to keep adequate accounts and for causing his company to trade in breach of VAT regulations.

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Ronald Francis Jackson, director of fishing tackle and equipment store Hooked (UK) Limited, in Benfleet, Essex, has been disqualified for five years for failing to keep proper accounts, following an investigation by The Insolvency Service.

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Three connected companies that purported to sell carbon credits and Voluntary Emission Reductions (“VERs”), to the public as investments have been wound up in the public interest by the High Court in London, following petitions by the Secretary of State for Business, Innovations and Skills.

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Three companies that supplied essential services to mobile homes run by a nationwide operator based in Essex were wound up on 15 April 2013 up by the High Court in the public interest following investigations by the Insolvency Service.

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Peter James Frampton, director of Oil and Water Limited (OWL), a waste management company in Shaftesbury, Dorset, has been disqualified from being a director for seven years for allowing his company to dump toxic silt into a protected environmental area and failing to pay almost £1m in tax.

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Wasim Minhas, director of Plateau Development and Land Limited, a company that illegally sold plots of land to the public and then failed to account for £1 million in payments from these sales, has been disqualified from acting as director for nine years following an investigation by The Insolvency Service.

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Leslie William Stephens, the director of school clothing company, S’coolwear For Less Limited, based in Henlow, Bedfordshire has been disqualified for eight years for borrowing from the bank against sales that never actually took place. The disqualification follows an investigation by The Insolvency Service.

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