
Heather Thurlaway, Operations Manager Markets, and David Ellerington, Trading Standards Team Manager, celebrate the Charter signing with a large Real Deal cake, specially baked for the occasion by The French Oven and cupcakes by Pet Lamb Patisserie ˆ both are stalls in the Grainger Market.
The risks posed to consumers by counterfeit goods are always more prevalent at Christmas when people step out in search of a bargain. But consumers can be left seriously out of pocket when it turns out that the gift they have bought is either fake, does not work, or in some cases a danger to their health. But at Newcastle’s Grainger Market that risk has been eliminated after it was officially declared a fake goods free zone. Continue reading