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CORGI is now adjusting the cost of additional CORGI registrations to make it easier and less costly for individual operatives to work on “private jobs” legally. As a result of this existing members can now take an additional registration at a much lower price with less hassle.

CORGI attended the All Party Parliamentary Group for Gas Safety on 24 July 2007 and gave an overview of work being undertaken to raise the awareness of the dangers of carbon monoxide..

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has warned landlords to ensure gas appliances are safe for tenants.  The warning comes after ten people in three flats were poisoned by carbon monoxide (CO), from a faulty boiler in a flat adjacent to theirs.

Plumbing industry organisations are receiving an increasing number of complaints from people who have paid large sums of money for ‘fast track’ training to become plumbers only to discover that the training is inadequate, the advertised qualifications are not fully achieved and/or the promise of lucrative work is non-existent.

It has been discovered that a manufacturing defect may be present in Glow-worm Micron boiler models manufactured between 25 October 2006 and 12 April 2007.