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Series 3: Episode 6
Officers swoop on an illegal sweatshop in Birmingham suspected of being a major supplier of counterfeit clothing. Inside they discover thousands of garments and banks of manufacturing machinery - it’s one of their biggest finds ever. They are also on the trail of a cowboy builder who all but destroyed a young family’s dream home, ripping off the back of their house and digging up the garden, leaving the property unliveable and the family close to £17,000 out of pocket. In Newcastle, enforcement agents catch up with a criminal fly-tipping gang who are putting profit before public health. Fly tipping costs the city nearly half a million pounds per year to clean up. And a consignment of cheap earrings which could contain dangerously high levels of base metals such as nickel are seized.
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