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Vow to tackle doorstep crime during National Consumer Week 2014
Posted: 05/06/2014
National Consumer Week (NCW) 2014 will start on Monday 3 November. This year's theme is doorstep crime with a focus on encouraging friends, neighbours and carers to intervene when they suspect vulnerable neighbours and relatives are, or could become victim of doorstep crime.
European Consumer Centres score a winning goal for consumers travelling to the 2014 World Cup
Posted: 05/01/2014
Will you accompany the Three Lions to the World Cup this summer? And if so, do you know what to expect as a consumer in Brazil?
Four million people scammed each year
Posted: 05/01/2014
Scams Awareness Month is running throughout May to warn about the fraudsters preying on hard-up households.
Advice centre helps sharpen consumers' teeth to sue traders in a different European country
Posted: 04/16/2014
Action is being taken by consumer advice organisation the UK European Consumer Centre (UK ECC) to help consumers living in the UK understand how to make a claim against a trader based in a different European country.
40% cut in trading standards will devastate vulnerable consumers
Posted: 04/07/2014
Consumers will suffer as trading standards budgets in England and Wales are slashed by an average of 40%. These cuts leave the country open to an influx of dangerous counterfeit goods and will place elderly and vulnerable consumers at greater risk of losing their independence.
