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Private Eye: Well-done, Wheeldon

Private Eye   /   News   /   25 July 2012

'So. Farewell then Gavin Wheeldon, who sold his foreign language interpreting firm first to the Ministry of Justice and then to Capita - even though it was being boycotted by hundreds of the interpreters needed by the court service'

Hampshire police insists it won't use Applied Language Solutions for interpreters

Southern Daily Echo   /   News   /   22 July 2012

Hampshire police say they have no plans to save money by switching to a cheaper translation firm which has come under fire nationally because their staff are not up to the job

Birmingham Mail: MPs launch inquiry into translation shambles which let suspects walk free

Birmingham Mail   /   News   /   21 July 2012

High-level inquiry has been launched into a shambolic new interpreter service which has allowed foreign suspects to walk free from police custody

Daily Mail: Trial stopped as murder case translator was only there because his wife - the real interpreter - was 'too busy to show up'

Daily Mail   /   News   /   21 July 2012

A murder trial turned into a farce when an interpreter confessed half-an-hour into vital evidence that he was a fake, filling in for his busy wife


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