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Home Bargains guilty of selling unsafe chargers
Posted: 10/02/2017
National retailer TJ Morris Ltd, which trades as Home Bargains, has pleaded guilty to three electrical safety offences and ordered to pay 拢22,300 in fines and costs after selling thousands of unsafe chargers to consumers in 2015.
UK European Consumer Centre issues 'wise dating website' tips
Posted: 10/02/2017
UK consumers hoping to find love around the time of Valentine's Day are being urged to follow a set of 'wise dating website' tips when they sign up for love online.
Sentencing for fake goods car boot trader
Posted: 09/02/2017
A man has been sentenced to 100 hours community service after pleading guilty to selling thousands of pounds worth of fake designer goods at the Peterborough weekly 'Bizzy Boot' sale.
Takeaway owner fined 拢35,000 for serious food offences
Posted: 07/02/2017
Wirral Magistrates have fined a local businessman 拢32,000 after he admitted a string of food hygiene and food standards offences.
Hajj travel firm boss jailed for 14 months for fraud
Posted: 01/02/2017
The director of a Hajj travel firm was found guilty of fraud and sentenced to 14 months鈥� imprisonment at Leicester Crown Court on 31 January 2017.
New report shows fewer retailers sell e-cigs to children
Posted: 21/01/2017
Retailers that failed a national test purchase operation and sold nicotine inhaling products to children and young people are now fully compliant with the law, a new report has found.
Register My Appliance Day
Posted: 19/01/2017
Today (the 19听of January), is Register My Appliance Day, the domestic appliance industry is urging the public to take a few minutes to register the millions of white goods that they rely on every day, have never registered, and completely forget they own.
Winter tyres: a requirement throughout Europe?
Posted: 17/01/2017
Are you venturing out on the road in the freezing conditions sweeping across Europe now? Then it's time to read a Winter Tyres report just published by the European Consumer Centre Network on mandatory equipment for travel this winter in Europe, plus Iceland and Norway.
London cosmetic shops fined 拢168,000 for selling illegal cosmetics
Posted: 12/01/2017
Figures published by London Trading Standards this week showed that 15 cosmetic businesses across the capital were fined a total of 拢168,579 in 2016 for dealing in unsafe cosmetic products.
Illegal cigarettes found by sniffer dogs costs East London business 拢13,000
Posted: 11/01/2017
London Trading Standards deployment of tobacco sniffer dogs to combat the sale of illegal tobacco yielded another success this month.
Trading Standards ensures Derby is fake rice free
Posted: 09/01/2017
Derby City Council Trading Standards have been working with the Food Standards Agency (FSA) on sampling projects this year to help tackle problems with food that could be damaging to consumers.
Experts call for push payments to be disabled on vulnerable people鈥檚 accounts
Posted: 16/12/2016
VULNERABLE customers should be able to 鈥榮elf-declare鈥� their status and disable what are termed 鈥榝aster payments鈥� to prevent them being scammed, experts have warned.听
