Lambeth Trading Standards tackle price gouging and unsafe PPE
Since mid-March Lambeth Trading Standards have been receiving reports from concerned residents of price gouging - businesses inflating prices of everyday goods - and scams.
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Lambeth businesses held to account for selling knives and alcohol to under-18s
Trading Standards team planned operations with underage volunteers testing Lambeth businesses’ ability to prevent underage sales – and took three businesses to court.
Lambeth: Huge fine for illegal knife sale
The national tool hire firm Speedy Asset Services Ltd, part of the Speedy Hire plc Group, has been ordered to pay £50,000 after a 15-year-old girl was sold a...
Get to know your Trading Standards team during London Trading Standards week
Themes of the London Trading Standards week include illegal knife sales to teenagers and rogue letting agents. Two issues already taken extremely seriously by the Lambeth team.
Benugo receives massive fine for selling alcohol to a schoolgirl
The café and restaurant chain Benugo has been fined thousands of pounds after an employee sold a bottle of beer to a 15-year old during an undercover operation run...
Lambeth Council hits rogue traders hit for six during Cricket World Cup
Lambeth Council officers helped disrupt illegal trading – and protect fans - during the Cricket World Cup by seizing counterfeit goods worth thousands of pounds in the streets around...