Overview
- Cumbria Police stopped a vehicle heading to the fair and seized 99 pyramid rings during an early-morning operation on Friday, June 5.
- The force says the rings, which feature a raised pyramid on a band, have been linked in other cases to serious injury and will be destroyed before reaching market stalls.
- The ring seizure follows a separate joint police and Westmorland and Furness Trading Standards stop on the fair’s opening day that recovered counterfeit goods and realistic air weapons with BB pellets.
- Senior officers warned vendors that knives, imitation firearms, air weapons and other unsafe or counterfeit items will be seized and sellers removed from the trade fields.
- Trading Standards manager Catherine Hornby credited shared intelligence for preventing unsafe goods reaching the market and said joint patrols will continue to protect visitors and local communities.