Trading Standards Wales News

Welsh Trading Standards Services and key partners join forces to tackle rogue traders

As part of Trading Standards Wales Week, pre-planned days of action targeting rogue traders and doorstep crime took place across Wales

23
Apr
2024

3
Apr
2024

Cracking down on counterfeit goods

A Cwmbran business owner has pleaded guilty to selling counterfeit mobile phone covers.

25
Mar
2024

Wrexham Council : Beware ECO 4 Cold Callers

Over the past few months ew've been working with Warm Wales to develop a partnership arrangement in which Warm Wales will manage all enquiries relating to ECO 4 funding applications on behalf of Wrexham Council.

22
Mar
2024

Thousands of illegal vapes discovered in disused WWII bunker in Swansea garden

Illegal vapes with a street value of more than £47,000 have been discovered in a disused WWII bunker in a garden in Swansea.

21
Mar
2024

Trading Standards prosecution secures £6,000 donation for food bank

A businessman has agreed to make a £6,000 charitable donation after being prosecuted by Anglesey Trading Standards.

28
Feb
2024

18-month prison sentence for shop owner caught selling illegal tobacco

A Caerphilly shop owner has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for selling counterfeit cigarettes and tobacco.

28
Feb
2024

Caerphilly man guilty of causing unnecessary suffering to his dogs

On 8 February 2024, a Caerphilly man pled guilty at Cwmbran Magistrates Court to animal welfare charges, which included seven charges of failing to meet welfare needs of dogs under his care to the extent required by good practice and three charges of causing unnecessary suffering contrary to the Animal Welfare Act 2006.