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Boxes containing hotplates on a shop shelf. They each have pictures of the plates on the front. The plates are black with a silver and black handle.

Firm fined £16k for selling unsafe heated plates

A shopper in Colchester raised the alarm after spotting the electrical devices being sold.

Close-up of a nose of a black Mongrel dog. Only the snout is visible and there is grey fur around the nose.

Police dogs sniff out contraband worth £85,000

The joint police and trading standards operation in Hull finds illegal tobacco and vapes.

Hull & East Yorkshire

Mohammed Haque leaving Southwark Crown Court

Rogue landlord 'motivated by greed' jailed

Mohammed Haque was among a group of property agents who targeted vulnerable renters in east London.

An adolescent girl holding a vape to her mouth. She has long brown hair and is wearing a grey hoodie.

Shop fined for selling vape to undercover 15-year-old

Director of Newport Premier Ltd, Ivor Paris, was ordered to pay nearly £5,000.

Stash of illegal cigarettes in bags and boxes uncovered during the raid in Boston.

Shopkeeper jailed over haul of fake cigarettes

Ismail Amin owned stores in Boston, Birmingham and Derby where he sold illicit vapes and tobacco.

A trading standards officer confronts a shop worker over selling illegal tobacco products. She has her blonde hair in a pony tail with glasses on her head. She is wearing a black uniform with Trading Standards written on her back. The shop worker has a blurred face and is wearing a white t-shirt and a grey camouflage hoodie.

Illegal tobacco products seized during raids

Trading Standards South West worked with police during a week of action across the region.

Close up of a woman holding a lit cigarette in her hand

Shop stripped of licence over fake cigarettes

The owner had previously been given a "final warning", the committee hears.

Multiple sealed clear bags of counterfeit goods.

Illegal cigarettes and vapes seized in shop raid

Trading Standard officers and police said it was the largest raid of its kind in the area.

Birmingham & Black Country

Allan stands at his front door, which is slightly open showing inside his home. He wears a blue and grey cardigan, a red-and-white striped shirt, and necklaces of a cowboy boot and peace sign. He has a bald head with white beard and moustache.

'Roofers took my savings for job I didn't ask for'

Allan, from Hornsea, says there was nothing he could do when workers took on work he didn't need.

Hull & East Yorkshire