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“We’re watching you” - warning to dodgy taxi drivers
Cabbies and private hire drivers who operate illegally in Birmingham are being warned they will be caught and face prosecution. New signs have been installed across the city centre reminding drivers against breaking the law and touting for on-street business - a specific offence known in the trade as ’plying.’ The 100 reflective signs have […]
Trading Standards stop sales of dangerous hoverboards
Trading Standards officers stopped nearly 1,800 unsafe ‘hoverboards’ from being sold to consumers in Birmingham during the run up to Christmas, according to a new report. Birmingham City Council’s trading standards team, working with port authorities across the country, to suspend the sale of the popular gadgets – most of which were being imported from […]
City man fined for dumping waste
A Birmingham man has been ordered to pay £230 after pleading guilty at Birmingham Magistrates today (21 January 2016) of illegally dumping waste, including cannabis plants, on a Cotteridge car park. Daniel Hughes, 32, of Wadham House, Woodlands Way, Chelmsley Wood, was prosecuted by Birmingham City Council for an offence under the Environmental Protection Act […]
Licensing’s plans to improve safeguarding
A report setting out how Birmingham City Council’s licensing service is helping to tackle child sexual exploitation will be discussed by councillors next week (20 January 2016). Since the Casey Report into child sexual exploitation (CSE) in Rotherham was published in February 2015, Birmingham’s licensing officers have looked at their practices and protocols to identify […]
Making sure food businesses are fit to eat in
Cllr Barbara Dring, Chair of the council’s Licensing and Public Protection Committee, explains how Birmingham City Council is working to ensure food businesses are fit and safe to eat in. As part of my job, as Chair of the Licensing and Public Protection Committee, it’s my responsibility to ensure the city’s pubs, cafes and restaurants […]
Officers seize 100,000 illegal cigarettes in city raids
Illegal cigarettes worth about £25,000 were seized by Trading Standards officers in a series of planned raids on 12 retail premises across Birmingham on Wednesday (7 October 2015). Teams of officers targeted shops , off licences and a hairdresser’s in east and north Birmingham using three sniffer dogs, as part of a continued crackdown on the […]
