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The Trade Descriptions Act

Descriptions Act 1968 makes it an offence for a store to sell or advertise goods or services with a false or misleading statements. The Act carries criminal penalties and is enforced by local authorities' such as Trading Standards Officers. Trading standards will investigate any suspicious products or services that have been advertised or promoted as being something, and doesn't meet the expectations of the customers. On many occasions businesses are investigated by trading standards officers after gaining tip offs from the consumer.
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Crime for themselves

At the start of the play, the narrator asks the audience to Judge Mrs Johnston's crime for themselves. By the end of the play, does the audience believe that Mrs Johnston has a stone in place of a heart or has Willy Russell persuaded us otherwise? The play 'Blood Brothers' is set in Liverpool during the 1960's, 70's and 80's period. Willy Russell, the author, was born on the outskirts of Liverpool in 1947. At the age of five, he moved o a place called Knowsley. His father owned a chip shop and his mother worked in a warehouse. Russell was a failure at school but it was during English silent reading lessons he realised that he wanted to be a writer. He left school with an English language O level as his only qualification to work as a hairdresser for six years. Russell then took English evening classes and when he passed that decided to go to college for a year.
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