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Posted: 30 August 2024
UPDATES: Businesses across Workington, Silloth and Maryport have been praised after repeated test purchasing exercises showed staff consistently challenged young volunteers for proof of age before selling age-restricted products.
Posted: 06 August 2024
UPDATES: Two food businesses which failed to protect customers with allergies have been fined following prosecutions brought by...
Posted: 01 July 2024
UPDATES: Following a year-long investigation and seven raids, Bolton Trading Standards secured a rare Closure Order against a shop repeatedly selling illicit tobacco. Hidden compartments, counterfeit goods and sustained enforcement underline the scale of the operation and the message to offenders.
Posted: 12 June 2024
UPDATES: Westmorland and Furness Trading Standards seized counterfeit perfumes, fake designer sunglasses and potentially unsafe electrical goods worth around £500,000 at Appleby Horse Fair, in a multi-agency operation targeting illicit and substandard products.
Posted: 19 February 2024
ANALYSIS: Fraud does not end when the money is lost. Examining the lasting impact on victims - particularly older people - this feature explores why effective after-care, partnership working and long-term support are essential to tackling scams.
Posted: 08 January 2024
UPDATES: Lancashire Trading Standards brought down a prolific counterfeit poster operation after uncovering industrial-scale printing equipment and thousands of copyrighted images. The investigation exposed more than £1 million in fraudulent sales and ended with a three-and-a-half year prison sentence.
Posted: 21 September 2023
UPDATES: An illegal money lender who preyed on vulnerable people in Liverpool has been ordered to pay back £40,000 following a Proceeds of Crime Act...
Posted: 25 July 2023
UPDATES: Lancashire Trading Standards joined a multi-agency Preston day of action under Operation Centurion, seizing counterfeit cigarettes, illicit tobacco, non-duty paid alcohol, prescription-only medicines and non-compliant vapes as part of wider efforts to tackle anti-social behaviour and protect public health.
Posted: 20 July 2023
UPDATES: Cheshire East Trading Standards has received national recognition from the England Illegal Money Lending Team for its work to raise awareness of loan sharks, support safer communities and help expose unlawful lenders operating locally.
Posted: 05 July 2023
UPDATES: A man who set up sham energy companies to rip off small businesses has been handed a 13-year jail sentence following a complex and lengthy investigation by the National Trading Standards Regional Investigation Team (Nort...
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