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Posted: 21 July 2022
UPDATES: Businesses trading around the Commonwealth Games venues are reminded of temporary restrictions on advertising and street trading, with offences applying in designated areas during the event.
Posted: 14 July 2022
UPDATES: Trading Standards teams across the West Midlands are joining forces with the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agents Team to check compliance by letting agents. The project focuses on deposit protection, client money protection and other legal duties, with substantial financial penalties available for breaches.
Posted: 28 April 2022
UPDATES: A fraudster who offered fake COVID-19 testing services during the pandemic has been prosecuted after deceiving members of the public with bogus home testing and false laboratory claims.
Posted: 21 March 2022
UPDATES: A Warwickshire rogue trader has been convicted after systematically exploiting a vulnerable pensioner over several years, extracting more than £100,000 for grossly overpriced and incomplete work. The investigation reveals the scale of the deception and the evidence that secured the verdict.
Posted: 12 January 2022
UPDATES: An illegal puppy seller who misled buyers into believing he had bred the animals himself has been ordered to pay £100,000 after a Telford and Wrekin Council Trading Standards investigation uncovered poor record-keeping, misleading adverts and serious animal welfare concerns.
Posted: 27 October 2021
UPDATES: A Staffordshire operation involving specialist search dog Cooper uncovered thousands of illegal cigarettes and kilograms of hand-rolling tobacco, highlighting the continuing success of Operation CeCe in tackling the illicit tobacco trade.
Posted: 25 August 2021
UPDATES: A trading standards investigation has resulted in a Birmingham man being jailed for four years for manufacturing and selling fake designer clothes. Inderjit Sangu, who owned a clothing manufacturing business in Hockley, ...
Posted: 22 July 2021
UPDATES: Warwickshire Trading Standards uncovered thousands of suspected illegal cigarettes and tobacco products hidden in ingenious locations, including beneath a sewer manhole, during enforcement activity targeting illicit tobacco sales across Leamington Spa.
Posted: 07 July 2021
UPDATES: A recent case in which Birmingham Trading Standards successf...
Posted: 12 April 2021
UPDATES: CTSI Symposium is set to return as a face-to-face event in Birmingham in September 2021, following the previous year's online-only format during COVID-19 restrictions.
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