Fake DVDs and porn seized in raid

The council says is determined to clamp down on counterfeit trading

More than 2,000 illegal DVDs, computer games and pornographic films have been seized by trading standards officers.

Following a tip-off, officers and police raided a property in Yate near Bristol and found a room set up as a mini copying factory.

As well as films and games, several copying towers, printers and other copying equipment were discovered.

The equipment, worth thousands of pounds, was confiscated and a formal warning issued to the occupant.

Neil Derrick, senior trading standards officer at South Gloucestershire Council said: "This type of set-up is typical of many mini copying factories that we deal with.

"Quite often they are operated by people who have a large customer base which consists of work colleagues, who they think they can sell them to with little chance of detection."

The haul also included large quantities of pornographic films which had been imported from Thailand and did not comply with the film classification system.