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Romanian child-slaves are trafficked into the United Kingdom because almost 1,500 social care workers with traffic prevention training have been replaced with untrained amateurs in Romanian crisis centers, says the online edition of the Sunday Express.

French carmaker Renault, owner of Romania’s Automobile Dacia, said Wednesday that Dacia’s new crossover SUV, the Duster, will enter the British market at the end of 2012.

Foreign drivers who violate traffic rules in Great Britain risk having their cars seized if they fail to pay the fines applied by British police officers, according to new traffic regulations targeting foreign citizens, which have recently come into force.

Britain’s Prince Charles, 59, had a non-cancerous growth removed from his face in a minor procedure, Daily Mail informed.

Romania’s Embassy to London is among the diplomatic offices that failed to pay the traffic decongestion toll in the center of London, which triggered debts of over GBP200,000 (over EUR260,000).

British authorities granted 30,570 work cards to Romanian and Bulgarian nationals in 2007, the government said in a statement Tuesday.

Great Britain shares the concerns voiced by US Ambassador in Romania Nicholas Taubman over Romania’s proposed amendments to the criminal codes, which could weaken the ability of prosecutors and law enforcement officials to combat a wide range of serious crimes, including bribery and corruption, British Embassy said in a statement Thursday.