The Latest Breaking News from Trading Standards

Wallsend shop ordered to shut for three months after being caught selling illegal tobacco products

Euro Mini Market, on Northumberland Terrace, Wallsend, has been hit with a three-month closure

Chronicle Live · May 16, 2023

Illegal vapes worth £30k seized from shop as warning issued

The shop was also caught selling a disposable e-cigarette to a 16-year-old in February

Liverpool Echo · May 16, 2023

Jodie Marsh quizzed by RSPCA after taking her pet meerkat to the pub

Former glamour model Jodie Marsh said her £1 million farm was visited by animal agencies after she admitted to taking her pet meerkat to the pub

Daily Mirror · Apr 27, 2023

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

Sales of illegal tobacco are a 'growing problem'

Nottingham Post · Apr 1, 2023

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 · Mar 28, 2023

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

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

Insider UK · Mar 23, 2023

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 · Mar 7, 2023

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 · Mar 6, 2023

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 · Mar 3, 2023

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

He's been jailed for more than six years

Nottingham Post · Mar 3, 2023