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Welcome to CTSI's News Room. Here, you can browse through our latest consumer protection and trading standards news reports (below), or check out our archive of news articles from previous years.

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Warning to councils over cuts to statutory services

Posted: 07/10/16

A COUNCIL'S eleventh hour decision to conduct a more wide-ranging review of its trading standards function has served as a reminder to other authorities to think carefully about their statutory duties when making cuts - or risk being hauled before the courts. 

New campaign to tackle criminal scams launched

Posted: 06/10/16

A new campaign has launched today to raise awareness of scams and encourage people to take a stand against them. 

Cheese and ham pizza please, hold the cheese and ham

Posted: 03/10/16

TRADING standards officers investigating food fraud have caught a ‘fakeaway’ boss who was selling cheese and ham pizzas, that contained neither cheese nor ham.

New consumer crime tip-off tool launched for London

Posted: 22/09/16

Today saw the launch of a new confidential consumer crime reporting system for Londoners.

Fireworks trader fined £300,000 for unsafe storage

Posted: 19/09/16

A national discount store has been fined £300,000 for unsafe storage of fireworks at its Tamworth premises.


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