Dorset County Council’s trading standards service is warning traders to give consumers the cancellation rights they are entitled to after a man was prosecuted for selling gardening services door-to-door in Dorset.

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Trading Standards officers are urging consumers to be on their guard against ‘cold callers’ selling bogus energy saving devices. Continue Reading

Dorset County Council’s Trading Standards officers are urging retailers to take care when buying vodka at extremely cheap prices, after discovering examples of illegal alcohol. Continue Reading

A man responsible for alcohol sales at a Christchurch off-licence has been given a 12-month conditional discharge and ordered to pay prosecution costs after selling alcohol to a 15-year-old girl.

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An under-cover survey by Trading Standards officers has found “disappointing” gaps in the knowledge of TV aerial installers ahead of next month’s digital switchover. Continue Reading

A north Dorset farmer has been ordered to pay more than £2,000 after being prosecuted for causing unnecessary suffering to one of his cows.

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People in Dorset are being advised to be wary of opportunist tradesmen looking to cash in on recent bad weather.

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A trader at a market on Portland has been prosecuted after Trading Standards officers seized more than 600 counterfeit items from him. Continue Reading

A director of a failed building firm has been prosecuted by Dorset County Council’s Trading Standards after an investigation into false claims about major building work carried out at a local guest house. Continue Reading

A Dorset car trader has been prosecuted for failing to tell customers that the cars he was selling were previously insurance ‘write-offs’. Continue Reading

Trading standards officers are cracking down on people across Dorset who sell illegally copied goods at car boot sales or over the internet. Continue Reading

Trading standards officers seized around 750 counterfeit items from a trader visiting Portland Market last week. Continue Reading

Chickens reared at a farm in Sherborne, Dorset were found to have suffered due to a failure by the owners to attend to their condition. Continue Reading

A company that sold an unsafe plug-in adapter, for use with an Apple iPod, has been prosecuted and fined for breaching electrical safety regulations after an investigation by Dorset trading standards officers.

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A trader falsely claiming that his driveway resurfacing business was ‘the local company you can trust’ has been prosecuted after investigation by Dorset County Council’s Trading Standards Service. Continue Reading

Dorset Trading Standards officers from and the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) have seized more than 5,000 DVDs and similar film and music discs.

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