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£200,000 to stop 'illegal underage sales' of cigarettes and vapes in Nottingham

Sales of illegal tobacco are a 'growing problem'

Nottingham Post

Trading Standards highlights 'significant' rise in North Lanarkshire shops selling cigarettes and vaping products to under 18s

Test purchasing exercises were carried out for cigarettes in 37 shops and for disposable vapes in 14 shops, with seven cigarette sales (a 19 per cent fail rate) and five vape sales (36 per cent fail rate).

Daily Record

'Serious pricing issues' in supermarkets are costing Scottish consumers millions

Trading Standards investigation finds that smaller convenience stores have even more products wrongly priced

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Police raid shop famous for selling £100 cans of Logan Paul and KSI Prime drinks

Wakey Wines, in Yorkshire, went viral online for flogging the sort after energy drink Prime for astronomical prices before it was raided by police and trading standards

Daily Mirror

Shop that went viral for selling £100 Logan Paul and KSI drinks raided by police

Owner of Wakey Wines in Yorkshire, which gained 750,000 TikTok views for offering the sought-after refreshment at astronomical prices, says it was part of a bid to find drugs at the premises

Wales Online

Fraudster claimed he was in 'vegetative state' but was filmed walking the day before

William Bower, 44, overcharged elderly and vulnerable people looking for landscaping, gardening or property works in the East Midlands area

Daily Mirror

Nottinghamshire fraudster who said he was in 'vegetative state' caught walking on camera

He's been jailed for more than six years

Nottingham Post

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Gateshead Council backs call for tighter restrictions on vape sales

Gateshead council is working with Trading Standards to support compliance with regulations and 'take enforcement action when necessary'

Chronicle Live

North Shields shop ordered to close after fake cigarettes seized in raid by Trading Standards

Ali Baba shop in North Shields has been ordered to close for three months following the raid

Chronicle Live

Two Gateshead shops ordered to close down after illegal tobacco raids

Two shops in Bensham have been ordered to close after being found to be associated with the sale of illegal tobacco

Chronicle Live

Urgent warning issued over kitchen blender after it caused fatal fire

If anyone has one, don't use it and throw it out, say Trading Standards

Bristol Post

Urgent warning as hundreds of potentially lethal food blenders recalled after man dies in fire

A man died in a blaze in London caused by one of the kitchen blenders

Wales Online

Disposable vape crackdown sees 13,000 ‘illicit’ devices seized in Glasgow

Officers from Trading Standards say the non-compliant vapes have been impounded for various reasons including excessive tank capacity and nicotine strength exceeding permitted levels.

Daily Record

Glasgow trading standards confiscate 13,000 illegal vapes in city-wide crackdown

The vapes were seized for reasons including tank capacity and nicotine strength exceeding permitted levels, with council officials also expressing worry that colourful, sweet-flavoured vapes appeal to youngsters

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Daily Mirror

Beware scammers calling at homes trying to rip people off with toxic mould scares

Large amounts of cash of up thousands of pounds have been charged for poor trade skills and work, found to affect the ability of the property to secure a mortgage, say Trading Standards bosses

Daily Mirror

They often look and even taste like sweets - no wonder an epidemic of underage vaping is sweeping Britain

Cynical packaging and unscrupulous shops blamed for fuelling teenage vaping scandal

Daily Record

Supermarket shoppers issued warning as 'half and half' bread taken off shelves

The Real Bread campaign group has been waging war againt the naming of 'half and half' loaves.

Daily Mirror

Couple scammed out of £77,000 by cowboy builders for a job that should cost just £1,000

Professor Nigel Wilson and his wife Dr Hanneke Wilson sent £77,000 to rogue builders for roof repairs at their home which usually cost around £1,000, Oxford Crown Court heard

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Wales Online

Retired professor scammed out of £80,000 for £1,000 job by roofers

"One might say it was a bit of a lapse, but one does tend to take people on trust until one has some reason to doubt their credibility"

Manchester Evening News

Warning over 'toxic mould' scammers targeting households after Awaab Ishak death

Trading Standards say cold-callers have been targeting deprived areas offering work which doesn't get completed

Evening Standard

Thousands of vapes seized from Oxford Street shop in police raid

A raid on a “candy store” in Oxford Street has netted suspected fake and counterfeit goods priced in excess of £100,000.

Wales Online

Fears over significant rise in illegal sale of vapes to children

Trading Standards officers say children as young as 12 are buying vapes

The Independent UK

Rise in vape sales to children alarms Trading Standards officers

Trading Standards teams across England and Wales reported a significant rise in underage vape sales last year.

Evening Standard

London councils crackdown on illegal vapes

Undercover operations launched across capital to target shops selling to children

Wales Online

Shop worker caught serving alcohol to 15-year-old

Chiragkumar Patel was running Shreeji Stores in December 2021 when a Trading Standards officer visited the shop

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