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PAYING A BUILDER: Check one date on Companies House before you hand over a deposit
Overdue accounts turned out to be the tell. Local firms that had them were four times more likely to be…
SWANSEA: Warning over garden furniture cold callers working rural communities
Trading Standards says one resident pulled out of a sale after spotting the invoice didn't match the van, and the…
ROGUE TRADERS: Crackdown targets the gutter-clean con that fleeced valley pensioners
The scam the UK Government wants to kill off is one Swansea Bay courtrooms know well. New protections will hold…
ROGUE TRADER: ‘Garrulous charmer’ who turned gutter cleans into £40,000 of ruined roofs is jailed
Richard Murnane ran two fraudulent roofing businesses across Neath Port Talbot, targeting mainly elderly victims — with a judge branding…
Builders jailed after defrauding Ystalyfera pensioners out of life savings
Victims urged to remortgage home as roof scam spiralled
Council issues warning after rise in dodgy landscape and roofing cold callers
Carmarthenshire County Council has urged residents to be on their guard after a spate of reports about rogue traders targeting…
Port Talbot trader branded ‘epitome of a rogue trader’ after Trading Standards probe
A Port Talbot man who carried out shoddy and potentially dangerous electrical and plumbing work has been branded “the epitome…
Three rogue traders from same family prosecuted for dodgy driveway and home improvement work
The rogue traders befriended, groomed and intimidated their elderly and vulnerable victims, including giving one sleeping pills and impersonated them…
Carmarthenshire rogue builder jailed after defrauding customers of over £30,000
A rogue builder has been jailed after a prosecution by Carmarthenshire Council's trading standards.
Rogue roofer handed suspended prison sentence
A rogue roofer who carried out work that wasn’t required on the home of a vulnerable couple and charged them…
Rogue builder given suspended prison sentence
Blaengarw builder, Drew Joyce, has received a sentence of nine months imprisonment, which has been suspended for two years after…