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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

Daily Mirror

West Lothian Bonfire Night safety concern as people urged to report hazards

Blackburn has become a national model for how to tackle thuggish behaviour around Bonfire Night and the community approach has been backed by a partnership of council and the emergency services

Edinburgh Live

Bensham and Newcastle police raids uncover £70,000 worth of suspected illegal tobacco and vapes

Northumbria Police raids saw almost 80,000 cigarettes, 35kg of hand rolling tobacco and 180 non-compliant vapes seized from convenience stores, a disused barber shop, a self-storage container and a car in Bensham and Newcastle

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Strict firework rules in place ahead of Bonfire Night in bid to avoid 'war zones'

Trading Standards officers will be checking stores aren't selling fireworks to under-18s

Daily Record

Hundreds of fireworks seized from Scots barbershop during tenement block raid

Around 250 rockets were seized by Trading Standards officers who received information the pyrotechnics were allegedly being sold from within the premises.

Daily Record

Mum 'spent week crying' over 'wonky conservatory' and 'bombsite' garden

Rebecca Jordan claims she paid £3.5k instead of £2k for the 'unlevel' building. Trading Standards were unable to intervene as they have no powers to require traders to put work right or refund money.

Wales Online

Fake U2, Foo Fighters and Nickelback t-shirts sold by Merseyside firm

Trading Standards found T-Shirt Subway sold tens of thousands of pounds of counterfeit tops

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Tesco and Lidl recall food items due to small pieces of metal and allergy concerns

Supermarkets Tesco and Lidl have had to recall a number of food items due to health and safety concerns - including one item that may contain small pieces of metal

Daily Mirror

Tesco and Lidl recall food items due to small pieces of metal and allergy safety concerns

Products have been pulled from sale due to issues including potential asbestos poisoning, allergies and choking hazards among others

Wales Online

Renfrewshire retailers warning amid fake cigarettes crackdown from Trading Standards

Every tobacco and e-cigarette outlet across the region has been written to in an unusual move.

Daily Record

Clothing company sold £30k worth of counterfeit t-shirts

Firm continued flouting trademarks even after being warned about activities by Trading Standards

Liverpool Echo

Judge tell watchdog: prosecute suspected frauds, you may even get a conviction

“Lawyers call it false representation, the public call it an old person being ripped off" - Judge Dugdale.

Daily Mirror

Criminal case into allegations of fraud and aggressive sales practices dropped after Fischer Future Heat strikes deal with Trading Standards

Electric heater company agrees to number of conditions and financial redress for complainants

Birmingham Post

Child killer, 'promising' footballer and hotel owner among crooks jailed this week

These are the criminals from our region who were locked up over the past seven days

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Woman bravely fought back when carjacker attacked her with a pair of scissors

Robber then stormed a shop brandishing a fake gun while claiming to be from Trading Standards

Liverpool Echo

Shopkeeper caught selling 47,000 illegal cigarettes tries to run away

Salih Ali tried to run away from Trading Standards officers when they visited his shop

Daily Record

Lanarkshire neighbours in dark as to whether work on homes can be complete despite spending thousands

The three neighbours iclaim they have wasted £15,000 between them due to the unfinished work, which started back on June 24

The National (Scotland)

Packaged goods in almost half of stores weigh less than claimed, tests find

SCOTS not getting what they have paid for could be contributing to the cost-of-living crisis, Trading Standards officers have warned, after stores…

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Edinburgh Live

Trading Standards issue urgent reminder for people to collect free SIM cards amid rise in scams

To date, trueCall devices provided through Trading Standards Scotland projects have blocked almost one million nuisance calls to Scottish landlines and prevented over 1,300 scams.

Liverpool Echo

Hundreds of illegal vapes seized from town centre store

Complaints were made the liquid contained too much nicotine

Chronicle Live

Whitley Bay corner shop caught selling booze and vapes to children in Trading Standards sting

Supersave Food and Wine could have its alcohol licence revoked after selling booze to children

Chronicle Live

County Durham woman ordered to pay over £1,000 after illegal tobacco found in her shop

In total, investigators found 6,260 illicit cigarettes and 350 grams of illicit hand rolling tobacco

Daily Record

Drug-detecting dog called Boo is hero of the hour after sniffing out around £1500 of fake tobacco at Perth shop

The joint initiative between Scottish Trading Standards services and Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) tackles the illegal tobacco trade at retail level

Liverpool Echo

Pub landlord's question exposed £1.4m charity fraudster

Nicholas Hughes made £1.4m from thousands of race nights and only donated a tiny fraction of it

Wales Online

Warning issued over Huggy Wuggy toys removed from Amazon which may be a 'choking hazard'

From a chicken and bacon caesar wrap to 11 faulty life jackets, here are the items being called back in after a warning from Trading Standards

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