Law & Politics

The UK’s media watchdog has given each of the country’s commercial public sector broadcasters until next March to produce a plan to improve their offering for kids.

With news that Ofcom has lambasted the likes of ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 for underserving UK children through lack of original and diverse programming, hitting the headlines, ToyNews thought it time enough to revisit its exclusive interview with a hero of the kids' TV space.

The firm will move to escape President Trump's trade war with China and the 25 per cent tariff placed on $34 billion worth of Chinese imports.

The rise in popularity of the slime trend in recent months has highlighted a slew of brands that use levels of the chemical borax deemed unsafe by EU toy trading standards.

Eight out of 11 slime products tested by Which? discovered to contain unsafe levels of the chemical boron; H Grossmans' Goopy Slime deemed among safest slime on the market.

Developed by CEN/TC 52, the revisions are expected to be cited in the Official Journal of the European Union over the summer.

The firm has said that while one million infringement notices may seem like an extraordinary number, it represents only a fraction of the total infringing products pushed by criminal networks on platforms like Amazon and eBay.

According to the firm that now boasts a 100 per cent degradable product portfolio, the use of cheap plastic toys on the cover of children’s magazines are not only bad for the environment, but have very little play value.

The group said that the retail industry “shoulders far more than its fair share” of rates bills and that the tax was “leading to store closures.”

The firm has responded to calls from groups like Authors4Oceans for all UK kids' magazine publishers to end the 'toy tat' giveaways generating 3,000 tonnes of landfill a year.