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Posted: 10 February 2025
UPDATES: A Gloucester builder has received a suspended prison sentence and been ordered to repay victims after leaving poor-quality work unfinished and demanding further payments.
Posted: 03 February 2025
UPDATES: A shop in the Wiltshire town of Calne has been forced to close for three months after it was found to be selling illegal tobacco and vapes by.
Posted: 25 November 2024
UPDATES: Wiltshire Trading Standards has seized counterfeit and unsafe tobacco and vape products from businesses in Chippenham, Devizes and Melksham, with prosecutions now being prepared after raids supported by Wiltshire Police.
Posted: 14 November 2024
UPDATES: Bath & North East Somerset Trading Standards has secured a £108,085 Proceeds of Crime Act order against a builder who took large deposits, abandoned work and left customers facing serious financial losses.
Posted: 30 October 2024
UPDATES: A Gloucester shop owner has been ordered to pay more than £6,000 after repeated Trading Standards visits uncovered large quantities of illegal oversized disposable vapes at his shop and in his car.
Posted: 24 October 2024
UPDATES: Dorset Trading Standards has secured a further proceeds of crime order against a convicted counterfeit vinyl seller after investigators identified undisclosed assets linked to his £1.2m fake records operation.
Posted: 22 October 2024
UPDATES: Heart of the South West Trading Standards is urging consumers to check the age, condition and safe use of hot water bottles, warning that damaged or ageing products can cause serious burns.
Posted: 14 October 2024
UPDATES: A Taunton shop owner has been ordered to pay more than £2,300 after a disposable vape was sold to an under-18 volunteer during a Trading Standards test purchase, underlining the need for staff training and robust age-verification procedures.
Posted: 26 September 2024
UPDATES: Heart of the South West Trading Standards (HotSW TS) is reminding shopkeepers to ask their customers for ID following the prosecution of a trader who sold vapes to an under-18-year-old. At Newton Abbey Magistrates Court on 23 September Andrew Hawkins...
Posted: 09 September 2024
UPDATES: Trading Standards officers, police and detection dogs seized more than £10,000 of illegal tobacco and non-compliant vapes in Exmouth, adding to a year of major illicit product seizures across the region.
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