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Category Archives: Trading Standards
Customs’ dogs sniff out £500,000-worth of illegal tobacco
Croydon Council trading standards team and HM Revenue and Customs have used specialist sniffer dogs to track down and seize illegal tobacco worth more than £175,000. Officers recovered 270,600 illegal cigarettes and 14.8km of hand-rolling tobacco from a storage facility … Continue reading
£100,000-worth of contraband tobacco seized in Waddon raid
A trading standards raid in Waddon last week seized 175,000 illegal cigarettes estimated to be worth more than £100,000. The discovery has prompted the council to issue an urgent health warning over sales of cheap tobacco, and the threat to … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Trading Standards
Tagged cigarettes, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Trading Standards, Waddon
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Trading Standards delivers 17th court win against knife crime
A court case brought by Croydon Council Trading Standards against a firm selling dangerous weapons online to children has brought a prosecution and £25,000 in fines and costs against the company. The case, brought against Daventry-based Extreme GB Ltd, was … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Crime, Croydon Council, Knife crime, Trading Standards
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Trading Standards, Lord Toby Harris
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Axed! Retailer hit with £19,000 fines for under-age online sale
The council’s Trading Standards department has secured another prosecution against a business selling potentially a dangerous weapon to a child. The latest conviction was brought against a Manchester firm that sold an axe online to a 13-year-old. It saw Topline … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Crime, Croydon Council, David Wood, Knife crime, Trading Standards
Tagged Croydon Council, David Wood, Trading Standards
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Croydon has too few officers to police soaring knife crime
Incidents of knife crime in Croydon have nearly doubled in the past year, with 13 murders in the borough since January 2016. But police shortages in Croydon have become so bad that there were no officers available to visit the … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Crime, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Knife crime, London-wide issues, Norbury, Policing, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed MP, Tony Newman, Trading Standards
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon North, Labour, Member of parliament, Norbury, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed OBE, Tony Newman, Tory
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Letting agent convicted of fraud over £15,000 of deposits
A letting agent – described by a Crown Court judge as being “thoroughly dishonest” – has been jailed for 19 months after making off with thousands of pounds of clients’ holding deposits. The trial of Thirugnanaselvam Damayantharan, of Demesne Road, … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Crime, Croydon Council, Housing, Trading Standards
Tagged Croydon Crown Court, Housing
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Energy sales pressure techniques sees council call in Ofgem
Complaints from councillors over high-pressure selling techniques used by door-to-door energy salesmen in Fieldway and New Addington has led to the council to refer an energy company to Ofgem, and effectively to advise residents to use a blunter approach on … Continue reading
Posted in Carole Bonner, Croydon Council, Fieldway, New Addington, Trading Standards
Tagged Carole Bonner, Fieldway, New Addington, Trading Standards
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