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Posted: 03 July 2023
UPDATES: Tower Hamlets Trading Standards has been clamping down on law-breaking businesses in the London borough, with recent successful prosecutions of a shop which sold alcohol to a minor and another business which sold dangerous cosmetics....
Posted: 08 June 2023
UPDATES: CTSI has condemned plans to reduce Enfield's Trading Standards team to a single officer, warning that the cuts threaten consumer protection, undermine enforcement across hundreds of legal duties and come despite the service's recent prosecution successes.
Posted: 05 June 2023
UPDATES: One of the world's largest illegal sports streaming investigations has ended with lengthy prison sentences after Trading Standards officers uncovered a multimillion-pound piracy network serving tens of thousands of subscribers.
Posted: 23 May 2023
UPDATES: A used car dealer was prosecuted after selling faulty and misdescribed vehicles, falsifying documentation and denying consumer rights, resulting in fines, compensation for customers and director disqualification.
Posted: 22 May 2023
UPDATES: A retailer has been fined after selling a vape to an underage test purchaser, reinforcing the importance of age verification and ongoing enforcement against youth vaping.
Posted: 03 March 2023
UPDATES: Around £40,000 worth of non-compliant disposable vapes seized from a City retailer will be destroyed after officers found products that breached UK legal limits on nicotine-containing devices.
Posted: 17 February 2023
UPDATES: Southwark Trading Standards’ prosecution of Bishop Climate Wiseman exposed the sale of £91 bottles of ‘Plague Protection Oil’ falsely promoted as a COVID-19 cure. The case shows how officers balanced community sensitivity, expert evidence and legal preparation to tackle dangerous health claims during the pandemic.
Posted: 15 February 2023
UPDATES: Southwark Trading Standards’ investigation into rogue builder Richard Nicholls revealed more than £1.1m in losses, unfinished and dangerous work, and victims left financially and emotionally devastated. His three-year prison sentence followed support from the National Trading Standards Tri Regional Investigation Team and detailed financial evidence.
Posted: 16 January 2023
ANALYSIS: Barking and Dagenham Trading Standards explains its work tackling underage sales, using test purchasing and enforcement to reduce young people's access to knives, tobacco, alcohol and vapes.
Posted: 05 January 2023
UPDATES: Trading Standards officers have seized counterfeit goods and thousands of illegal vapes in pre-Christmas raids, disrupting the supply of illicit products across the borough.
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