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DORSET TRADING STANDARDS You can find out more by visiting www.dorsetforyou.gov.uk/tip-off. Fly-tipping
incidents can be reported by visiting www.dorsetforyou.gov.uk/flytipping, e-
Dorset County Council Trading Standards Service check and mailing enquiries@dorsetwastepartnership.gov.uk or calling 01305 221040.
approve businesses so you don’t have to.
For more information visit www.buywithconfidence.gov.uk or Annual Meeting
call 08454 040506.
To report or seek advice about problems you have At our annual meeting we decided not to change in Purbeck District Council
experienced when dealing with a trader call 08454 040506. office holders for 2018/19
Councillor Bill Trite and Councillor Wendy Meaden have been re-elected to their
respective positions of Chairman and Vice-Chairman of Purbeck District Council.
The very long arm of the law! I am grateful to have been appointed as Chair of the Planning Committee for
the 6th year in succession. This will be the final year of Purbeck district Concil as it
You may have recently heard about a case that Dorset County Council Trading
Standards Service took to court involving animal cruelty. A Somerset farmer and will be replaced by a Unitary authority next May.
haulier took some cattle to a Dorset slaughterhouse in the middle of the night
when no staff were present. When he tried to unload them into a holding pen Surgery
one of the cows was down on the floor in the back of the lorry and was unable to
stand up. He first tried to encourage it to stand but soon lost his temper and Surgeries are held on the first Saturday of every month. These are held at the
kicked, punched and pulled its tail violently. communal Lounge in Turberville Court in Bere Regis from 09.30 a.m. to 10.00 a.m.
If you have any questions or queries related to the business of Purbeck District
Fortunately, this was all captured on CCTV
and we could start an investigation which Council please do come along. If anyone wants to contact me and cannot get
soon revealed a whole range of other to the surgery my email address is peter.wharf@btopenworld.com.
offences the farmer had committed. Just at Peter Wharf - District Councillor
the point we were ready to charge him he
decided to leave the UK for America with no
intention of returning. What he hadn’t
accounted for was the fact that the
investigating officer had recently retired
from the Metropolitan Police after a career
of tracking down international money
launderers. The officer managed to not only
track down the farmer to a hotel in Arizona
and revoke his ESTA tourist visa but also
arranged an arrest warrant for when the
farmer returned to the UK which was duly
served.
The farmer eventually pleaded guilty and
was fined as well as being ordered to pay
the prosecution costs. Furthermore, as his American ESTA visa was revoked he will
never be allowed to visit the USA again.
For advice on this, or to report something to Trading Standards, call the Citizens
Advice consumer helpline on 03454 04 05 06.

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