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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 Mirror

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 Record

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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

Daily Mirror

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"

Wales Online

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

Manchester Evening News

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.

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Fears over significant rise in illegal sale of vapes to children

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

Wales Online

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.

The Independent UK

London councils crackdown on illegal vapes

Undercover operations launched across capital to target shops selling to children

Evening Standard

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

Wales Online

NHS-used premature baby milk urgently recalled over lead contamination fears

The products have been supplied to 13 NHS hospitals - with all now becoming urgently recalled.

Chronicle Live

Fake builder scammed 11 people out of £1 million to fund gambling habit

He left his victims with unfinished homes and carried out shoddy improvement works

Wales Online

‘A veil of lies’: ‘Builder’ scammed homeowners out of £1m and destroyed homes to fund gambling habit

One of Richard Nicholls’ victims suffered panic attacks while heavily pregnant with her first son, while an elderly woman had to find somewhere else to live for three years while her house was fixed

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Daily Mirror

Dangerous kids' toys yanked from shelves as potential risk 'doesn't bear thinking about'

Two years after more than 400 toys were seized from a business in Manchester, director Akmal Habibi has been jailed as parents are warned to be careful about the toys they buy this Christmas

Wales Online

Nestlé, Iceland, Amazon, Wish, and Sainsbury's recall products over safety concerns

Products have been recalled due to the possible presence of silica beads, undeclared allergens, or risk of choking among other reasons

Daily Record

Illicit goods seized by Falkirk trading standards team get a new lease of life

Fake goods will be transformed into everything from air freshener to children's playparks

Daily Mirror

Hundreds of fake listings pulled from Instagram in huge Black Friday crackdown

Brits have been urged to be extra vigilant this Christmas as hundreds of counterfeit listings have been removed on Instagram in a clampdown by the Trading Standards

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The Independent UK

Hundreds of counterfeit listings pulled from Instagram ahead of Black Friday

The listings included phone accessories, fake clothing, jewellery, tobacco and car parts.

Evening Standard

US candy shops on Oxford Street ‘drop by third’ after raids and legal action

Westminster Council says some of the candy and souvenir shops have evaded up to £8m in business rates

Glasgow Live

East Kilbride police raids uncover counterfeit merchandise haul worth an estimated £1m

Police and Trading Standards officers have recovered a haul of counterfeit merchandise mimicking luxury brands in storage units in East Kilbride with an estimated worth of £1m.

Daily Record

Fake designer goods worth £1m seized by cops from Scots storage unit as man arrested

Cops and Trading Standards raided storage units in East Kilbride.

Daily Record

North Lanarkshire Trading Standards review work in lead-up to Bonfire Night

Illegally stored fireworks worth between £6000 and £10,000 were seized from an unlicensed premises in Wishaw last Friday.

Nottingham Post

Toys, make up and hair straighteners seized from Ilkeston shop

More than 750 products were seized by Trading Standards

Daily Mirror

Great-gran, 91, left in home from hell after 'cowboy builder runs off with £9,000'

A great-grandma has been left "devastated" after taking out a lifetime mortgage to pay for a disabled-accessible kitchen and shower room - only to be left £9,000 out of pocket and her home in disarray

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