TRADING standards officers have vowed to keep fighting scammers despite losing a third of their staff to Highland Council budget cuts. But businesses will be subject to fewer routine inspections as a result of the cuts. And although Highland trading A market stall worker has been fined nearly £3,000 for selling fake branded luxury bags and purses at the now defunct Wembley market. Trading Standards officers from Brent Council carried out a routine inspection of the bag and luggage stall in February 2015. Following on from work for National Scams Awareness Month, Bath & North East Somerset Council’s Trading Standards team is issuing advice to local people on how to avoid becoming victims of fraudsters. During July, the Council’s Trading Standards team Suffolk Trading Standards are reminding people who are thinking of buying a dog to be cautious about illegally imported puppies. Illegal Import 25 Aug 2016(3)The warning comes after Suffolk County Council’s Trading Standards team have quarantined a Coventry Trading Standards warn the bank holiday weekend may herald a surge in rogue traders. According to the team of watchdogs, it is likely more doorstep traders will visit homeowners who are not at work over the extended weekend. Residents have been 0 Have your say County trading standards officers have revealed that the number of complaints they get about secondhand cars is about two or three per day. As part of a new campaign warning of the dangers when buying a used car, Lincolnshire Trading .
Nearly one in five under-18s in Runcorn and Widnes who drink buy their alcohol from adults outside shops according to research by Halton Council. Deana Perchant, of Halton Trading Standards, said a survey carried in 2015 out among the borough’s teenagers NORTH Ayrshire Trading Standards have vowed to step up their efforts to help those in our most deprived areas quit smoking. The team say they want to stamp out the sale of counterfeit and contraband tobacco, control tobacco sales and enforce legislation on “Obviously, it wasn’t up to our standards tonight,” Jackson said. “We need to do a little bit better. We will do whatever we feel that we need to do to shore that up. It wasn’t as good as any of us liked. “We will do whatever, whether we need Last month was dull in the financial markets, even by the normally sleepy standards of August was about 20% below its level from January through July, says Credit Suisse trading strategist Ana Avramovic. Not since 2010 has August been so much more .