All news on the topic: Rogue Traders

Jayne Marney, 68, paid the eye-watering bill after being told the work had been carried out at 'the going rate' - but later discovered that other locksmiths would have charged less than £300 for the same job

The father-of-three wanted to build an extension on his current family home and this dream became a reality after he was left money by his late father

Dodgy builder Daniel Roche, from Porth, was handed a four year and five months prison sentence after conning homeowners into paying thousands of pounds, only to leave homes in an unfit state and leave work incompleted.

North Korean elite officials enjoy lives of relative luxury while the vast majority of the population are left to scrape a living with many starving to death

Electrician Robbie Tomlinson, 29, from Scunthorpe, has been ordered to pay nearly £13,000 in fines and compensation after lying about his qualifications and carrying out shoddy work

A builder, along with other members of the community, came together to make a woman's day after a rogue trader knocked down her garden wall in Maghull, Sefton, Merseyside

Trading Standards officers are fighting against the Wild West home improvement industry

Rogue trader Peter Billydean Price, 25, charged a vulnerable customer in mid Ceredigion, Wales, £4,600 to replace old roof tiles but just painted the old ones orange

Jessica Burton had saved up to have her home renovated and hired a painter to sort the job, but says he turned up to work for just two days before leaving the job 'unfinished'

Lee Slocombe, 40, of Swansea-based firm Kamlee Builders defrauded families out of £147,000 for work which was either incomplete or unnecessary and has been jailed