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Trading Standards ensures Derby is fake rice free
Posted: 09/01/2017
Derby City Council Trading Standards have been working with the Food Standards Agency (FSA) on sampling projects this year to help tackle problems with food that could be damaging to consumers.
Experts call for push payments to be disabled on vulnerable people’s accounts
Posted: 16/12/2016
VULNERABLE customers should be able to ‘self-declare’ their status and disable what are termed ‘faster payments’ to prevent them being scammed, experts have warned.
CTSI responds to NAO report
Posted: 16/12/2016
Leon Livermore, chief executive of CTSI, has responded to the NAO review.
New guide to help businesses understand their obligations
Posted: 16/12/2016
Businesses that sell goods and services online and in people’s homes are being reminded that they can have more responsibilities than those who sell over the counter and on the high street.
RAC launches first used car code to be fully accredited by the Chartered Trading Standards Institute
Posted: 14/12/2016
In a bid to boost consumers’ confidence when buying a second hand vehicle, the RAC has announced the launch of what was the UK’s first used car code accredited by the Chartered Trading Standards Institute.
More consumers are complaining about hotels and villas
Posted: 13/12/2016
Complaints by UK consumers about accommodation services whilst abroad in Europe are rising and now account for the third largest number of ‘assistance cases’ handled by the UK European Consumer Centre.
Consumers flock to the UK European Consumer Centre for help
Posted: 07/12/2016
More and more consumers are turning to consumer advice organisation UK European Consumer Centre for help when they have a dispute with a trader based in a European country outside the UK.
New guidance for retailers follows super-complaint
Posted: 07/12/2016
New guidance aimed at stopping misleading and confusing pricing tactics used by some retailers has been published today, to help consumers get a fair deal.
Poundworld guilty of selling faulty phone charger kits
Posted: 06/12/2016
Giant discount retailer Poundworld has been prosecuted by Carmarthenshire County Council and ordered to pay more than £190,000 in fines and costs after selling thousands of faulty phone charger kits with forged safety test certificates to consumers in the UK.
Disabilities: know your rights when travelling by plane
Posted: 03/12/2016
December 3 is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Consumer advice organisation the UK European Consumer Centre (as part of the European Consumer Centres Network - ECC-Net) is drawing attention to the rights and problems of air passengers with disabilities or reduced mobility.
Warning over fake chargers and second-hand electrics
Posted: 02/12/2016
People are being urged to think twice when they buy second-hand electrical goods or cheap and often counterfeit chargers after investigators found that many of them are unsafe.
Get 'switched on' to your rights, urges consumer advice body UK ECC in National Consumer Week
Posted: 30/11/2016
Consumer advice organisation the UK European Consumer Centre is advising UK consumers to be 'switched on' to their rights when shopping for electrical goods online within Europe.
