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Posted: 16 September 2024
UPDATES: Lincolnshire Trading Standards has secured a guilty plea from rogue builder Christopher Marshall, who took payments for materials and unfinished work, failed to provide cancellation rights and left customers facing further costs.
Posted: 02 September 2024
UPDATES: A Suffolk rogue builder who took more than £17,000 in deposits without completing promised roofing work has received a suspended sentence, unpaid work, compensation order and five-year director ban.
Posted: 12 March 2024
UPDATES: North East Lincolnshire Trading Standards has secured a Proceeds of Crime ruling following trademark offences involving counterfeit goods, ensuring offenders face financial consequences beyond their criminal convictions.
Posted: 28 February 2024
UPDATES: North Lincolnshire's latest underage test-purchasing operation found three retailers willing to sell illegal vapes to a 15-year-old, as Trading Standards continues a wider crackdown on illicit products entering local communities.
Posted: 31 January 2024
UPDATES: Suffolk Trading Standards has seized more than 2,000 illegal vapes after businesses ignored earlier compliance advice, underlining continuing enforcement action against unlawful nicotine products.
Posted: 23 January 2024
UPDATES: A Lincolnshire rogue trader who exploited elderly and vulnerable homeowners with unnecessary roofing work has been jailed following a successful Trading Standards investigation.
Posted: 18 January 2024
UPDATES: Enforcement action has shut down a bogus university website that impersonated a genuine institution and targeted prospective students with fraudulent courses costing thousands of pounds.
Posted: 08 November 2023
UPDATES: A rogue builder who financed luxury spending by defrauding householders has been jailed following a Trading Standards investigation. The case highlights the scale of consumer harm caused by repeat offenders and the persistence needed to bring complex frauds before the courts.
Posted: 16 October 2023
UPDATES: Suffolk Trading Standards removed thousands of oversized disposable vapes from sale after discovering products far exceeding the UK's legal tank capacity and puff limits, reinforcing ongoing efforts to tackle non-compliant vaping products.
Posted: 21 September 2023
UPDATES: An Essex Trading Standards investigation of a rogue builder who defrauded his victims into paying up front for work that wasn’t completed...
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