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Posted: 06 September 2023
UPDATES: Two care workers in Suffolk who stepped in to protect a 101-year-old woman who had fallen prey to a clairvoyance...
Posted: 04 August 2023
UPDATES: Two offenders have been sentenced after officers uncovered hundreds of thousands of illegal cigarettes and large quantities of illicit tobacco, exposing the scale of an operation worth hundreds of thousands of pounds in lost duty.
Posted: 16 June 2023
UPDATES: A rogue Suffolk letting agent who defrauded landlords and tenants has been banned from acting as a company director following a Trading Standards investigation that exposed widespread misuse of tenancy deposits and rental payments.
Posted: 04 April 2023
UPDATES: A joint investigation has brought sentencing for fraudsters who targeted elderly and vulnerable victims, exposing the pressure tactics and deception used to extract money from people least able to withstand it.
Posted: 24 March 2023
UPDATES: Lincolnshire Trading Standards says illicit vapes have become a new enforcement battleground, with seizure figures showing how quickly non-compliant products have moved to the centre of local product safety work.
Posted: 09 March 2023
UPDATES: More than 300 unsafe electrical heaters destined for online sale were intercepted at Felixstowe after inspectors identified serious electrocution risks, preventing potentially dangerous products from reaching consumers.
Posted: 15 February 2023
UPDATES: Suffolk Trading Standards has secured £50,000 in compensation for victims of David Waters, whose mobility furniture company took deposits from elderly and disabled consumers but failed to deliver. The payout follows his fraud conviction and underlines the team’s work beyond prosecution to recover money for those harmed.
Posted: 13 February 2023
UPDATES: North East Lincolnshire Trading Standards and Humberside Police have seized illegal cigarettes, tobacco, shisha and disposable vapes from five businesses in Grimsby and Cleethorpes. The Operation CeCe raids removed products worth tens of thousands of pounds and continued a local enforcement drive against illicit tobacco sales.
Posted: 24 January 2023
UPDATES: An investigation uncovered pigs left emaciated without adequate food, water or bedding, leading to prosecutions that underline the consequences of serious farm animal welfare failures.
Posted: 20 September 2022
UPDATES: Suffolk Trading Standards removed more than 350 items of potentially dangerous motorcycle protective clothing from sale at the Copdock Bike Show after inspections found non-compliant jeans, gloves, jackets and body suits.
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