Trading Standards safety message for e-bike or e-scooter owners or buyers
Trading Standards is advising consumers and businesses to ensure that e-scooters and Electrically Assisted Pedal Cycles (e-bikes) are safe and compliant with the correct safety regulations before they are purchased, … Continue reading
Shopkeeper admits selling counterfeit tobacco
A Taunton shopkeeper has pleaded guilty to selling counterfeit tobacco and has been ordered to carry out 100 hours of community work. Allen Ahmadi, 31, proprietor of Wawel Polish shop, … Continue reading
Traders reminded to check ID on age-restricted goods
Traders are being reminded that they are putting their livelihoods at risk by not asking for identification when selling age-restricted goods. The warning from Heart of the South West Trading … Continue reading
Businesses are urged to prepare for this October’s ban on some single-use plastics
Our Trading Standards service is reminding businesses, such as takeaways, sandwich bars, care homes and retailers who supply certain single-use plastic items, that a ban comes into force this October, … Continue reading
Shop selling vapes and drug paraphernalia to children closed down
Heart of the South West Trading Standards Service has worked with police to close a second store in Taunton which was selling vapes and drug paraphernalia to children and counterfeit … Continue reading
Majority of ‘sandwich bars’ tested in breach of new allergen law
100 sandwich shops, delis and bakeries tested across Devon, Plymouth, Somerset and Torbay. Businesses, such as delis or bakeries who prepare then package food for sale, are being urged not … Continue reading
Rogue builder jailed for fraud
A rogue builder from North Devon has been jailed for two years eight months for defrauding his customers out of approximately £38,000. At Exeter Crown Court on Thursday, March 30, … Continue reading
Trading Standards warns lettings agents to protect client’s money after firm fined £8,000
Trading Standards is reminding letting agents of their legal obligation to protect money they are holding on behalf of a client after a tribunal upheld an £8,000 fine imposed on … Continue reading
£20,000 of illicit tobacco seized in Taunton
More than £20,000 of illicit tobacco was seized from a store in Taunton on Tuesday (21 February). The joint operation was carried out by the Heart of the South West … Continue reading
Closure order granted for shop which sold vapes to children
A shop in Taunton which sold vapes, illegal tobacco products and other drug paraphernalia, including cannabis grinders and bongs, to children has been ordered to close following a court hearing. … Continue reading