A Barking and Dagenham business faces prosecution from the Trading Standards service after it sold fireworks to a 14-year-old. In the lead up to Bonfire Night, proactive officers from the council’s Trading Standards team carried out test purchasing operations across a number of businesses. Of the 10 visits conducted, only one business failed – where
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Trading Standards Officers from Newham Council carried out test purchase operations to ensure that local businesses were not selling alcohol, and vapes to young people. The recent test purchases saw young people, under the age of 18, attempting to purchase alcohol, and vapes from a number of different businesses in the borough. Overall the planned
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The former owner and employee of a Hammersmith off licence that sold alcohol to children have been fined. The rogue retailer was rumbled after Trading Standards officers from Hammersmith & Fulham Council investigated their ‘Smokemart’ store in King Street and sent underage buyers in. But just one month after selling alcohol to two underage volunteers
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An initiative to stamp out the sale of knives to underage purchasers has been relaunched after dozens of retailers across London failed to check if buyers were of legal age. Undercover operations were carried out in May and August to assess whether someone under the age of 25 could buy a knife without being questioned.
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Croydon Council has now successfully prosecuted 15 businesses across the country under its trading standards team’s pilot clampdown against illegal online knife sales to children. The scheme is backed by the Home Office and National Trading Standards. The latest cases – against shopping website Very’s operating company Shop Direct Home Shopping Limited and Lancashire-based tool
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LTS Week, Day 5 – Protecting young people Test purchases conducted by London Trading Standards (LTS) have shown that shops in London are still selling knives and alcohol to children as young as 13. Tobacco was also high on the list of age-restricted products sold to children, with tobacco being sold to 14-year olds. Figures
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Figures published by London Trading Standards show children as young as 13 continue to be sold knives across the capital. It is illegal to sell knives to anyone under 18. The first day of London Trading Standards Week, which runs 25-29 September, is focused on reducing the number of knives sold to children. The key
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Figures published by London Trading Standards today show children as young as 13 were able to buy knives in test purchasing carried out across the capital. It is illegal to sell knives to anyone under 18. During the whole of 2016, 725 test purchases were carried out by London Trading Standards and the Metropolitan Police
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Action by Croydon Trading Standards has resulted in a Norbury-based trader becoming the borough’s first shop owner to be handed a prison sentence for selling knives to children. It is illegal to sell knives to anyone under the age of 18. Shakeb Hakime, of Norbury Discount Store, London Road, was sentenced to 10 weeks’ jail,
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Action by London Trading Standards has seen two national retailers convicted of selling knives to children. It is illegal to sell a knife to anyone under the age of 18. In Dagenham a Poundstretcher store was ordered to pay almost £13,000 in fines and costs in July after being found guilty of selling knives to
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