Details of how our services are operating over the festive period, including registration offices, social work services and bin collections.
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- Novelty, decorative and ornamental giftware
- Electrical equipment
- Mini motos, off-road vehicles, etc
- New upholstered furniture
- Batteries
- Unsafe goods: liability
- Second-hand gas cooking appliances
- Second-hand electrical goods
- Cosmetic products
- Goods in rented accommodation
- Electrically assisted pedal cycles
- Leather goods
- Product safety: due diligence
- Toys
- Construction products
- E-scooters
- General product safety: producers
- General product safety: distributors
- Part-worn tyres
- Food imitations
- Jewellery safety: metal content
- New nightwear
- Refill shops
- Recreational craft (boats etc)
- Second-hand upholstered furniture
- Sky lanterns
- Used car sales
- New and second-hand prams and pushchairs
- Candles, diffusers, oil heaters, etc