Officers from Gloucestershire County Council’s trading standards service have seized 2,165 disposable e-cigarettes being sold illegally since November last year. The e-cigarettes, which did not show the correct labelling and health warnings, were seized from shops in Dursley, Stroud, Gloucester and Cheltenham. Many businesses have lost thousands of pounds through… Read More
Gloucestershire County Council
£30,000 of illegal tobacco seized in Gloucester
Illegal tobacco with a street value of more than £30,000 has been seized by Gloucestershire County Council trading standards officers, with assistance from Gloucestershire Constabulary. At the request of trading standards, police officers gained entry to the address in the Barton area of Gloucester where trading standards officers found a… Read More
llegal tobacco seized following police tip-off
Illegal tobacco with a street value of more than £41,000 has been seized by Gloucestershire County Council trading standards officers after they were alerted by colleagues from Gloucestershire Constabulary. While police were responding to an incident at a property in Southgate Street in Gloucester on 19 April 2022, they forced… Read More
Cotswold farmer sentenced after burying sheep in a heap of potatoes
A farmer from Ozleworth, Wotton-under-Edge, has been given a suspended prison sentence for burying sheep carcasses in a heap of rotting potatoes. At a hearing on 18 November, Stephen Redman, aged 65, of Newark Park Farm, pleaded guilty to 22 offences brought by Gloucestershire County Council’s trading standards service, relating… Read More
Farmer jailed for causing unnecessary suffering to sheep
A farmer from the Forest of Dean has been sent to prison for causing unnecessary suffering to a sheep which was found dead on his farm during an unannounced inspection. Keith Barber, aged 72, of Joys Green, Lydbrook, appeared at Cheltenham Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday 11 August to be sentenced…. Read More
Gloucester man admits planning to sell fake car accessories
A Gloucester man was thwarted in his bid to sell nearly 1,000 counterfeit car badges by Gloucestershire trading standards officers. Cezary Sobieszuk, aged 39, of Sapperton Road, appeared before Cirencester Magistrates’ Court on Thursday 13 May 2021 following a trading standards investigation. He pleaded guilty to four offences, one relating… Read More