counterfeit

The BBC found several websites on which counterfeit shirts of every Premier League club were being sold for as little as £12.

Medical experts told the BBC that such shortcuts by qualified professionals stripped away basic safeguards and pushed potentially counterfeit products into the beauty trade.

The Home Office has promised to investigate after a BBC investigation uncovered more than 100 businesses linked to a Kurdish gang enabling migrants to work illegally selling counterfeit cigarettes in High Street mini-marts.

All but one of the shops sold counterfeit or smuggled cigarettes for about £4 per pack, instead of the average UK price of £16 for a pack of 20.

"We know of businesses here in Wales who are being suffocated by a flood of counterfeit versions of their products online."