A Preston shop owner has received a £166 fine after a staff member sold e-liquid and e-cigarettes to two underage Trading Standards volunteers. Lancaster Magistrates heard that the e-cigarette kiosk […]

A scam social media post encouraging people to apply for Omicron Covid-19 tests is currently doing the rounds in Preston and Lancashire. The county council’s Trading Standards team has received […]

Suppliers and retailers in Preston are being urged not to increase prices during the coronavirus outbreak. The warning follows reports of some companies setting excessively-high prices for protective items such […]

Trading Standards have issued an alert over a number of scams targeting Lancashire households in recent weeks. The scams include high pressure doorstep sales and bogus callers claiming to be […]

Trading Standards officers have issued a warning after a number of complaints of high pressure cold callers targeting Preston and South Ribble. One elderly woman received repeated visits from a […]

Police and Trading Standards officers swooped on a number of shops in a crackdown on knife crime. Test purchases were carried out by young people who looked too young to […]

Households in Samlesbury are being warned about doorstep sellers. Underhand sales tactics are being used according to Trading Standards. Lancashire County Council has issued the warning after reports of door-to-door […]

More than 600 packets of contraband cigarettes have been confiscated from a stockroom of a shop in Ribbleton. Trading Standards officers from Lancashire County Council inspected the premises along with […]