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Posted: 13 January 2025
UPDATES: Another rogue builder has received a custodial sentence after exploiting householders, sending a clear message that serious consumer fraud will be pursued through the courts.
Posted: 18 November 2024
UPDATES: A father-and-son roofing operation has been sentenced after targeting elderly and vulnerable residents with unnecessary work, ignoring Trading Standards intervention and returning to extract further payment from victims.
Posted: 12 November 2024
UPDATES: A Telford rogue trader who pressured an elderly homeowner into paying more than £60,000 for poor and unnecessary work has received a suspended sentence, underlining the risks faced by vulnerable consumers targeted at home.
Posted: 08 November 2024
UPDATES: Walsall Trading Standards has secured guilty verdicts against rogue builder Shane Steven Rollinson, whose poor work, false business identities and attempts to influence witnesses left customers thousands of pounds out of pocket.
Posted: 10 October 2024
UPDATES: Trading Standards officers in Staffordshire seized a significant quantity of illegal vapes during enforcement activity, reinforcing ongoing efforts to remove non-compliant products from sale and protect consumers.
Posted: 09 September 2024
UPDATES: A Staffordshire puppy trader who sold around 500 dogs using falsified records and misleading claims has received a suspended prison sentence after customers were left with sick animals and heavy emotional distress.
Posted: 02 September 2024
UPDATES: Staffordshire Trading Standards has seized more than £28,000 worth of illicit tobacco, vapes and shisha in Burton raids linked to Operations CeCe and Joseph, adding to £740,000 of local seizures since the initiatives began.
Posted: 27 August 2024
UPDATES: Worcestershire Trading Standards is warning parents about imported American confectionery after testing identified illegal additives in products sold locally, prompting enforcement action against the retailers involved.
Posted: 21 August 2024
UPDATES: A used car dealer has been convicted after selling a dangerously unroadworthy vehicle described as a 'death trap', with the court ordering compensation for the consumer following a Trading Standards investigation.
Posted: 12 August 2024
UPDATES: Shropshire Council Trading Standards has prosecuted two local businesses for illegal sales of vapes, resulting in convictions...
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