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Series which reveals the extent of fake goods in the UK.

Series which reveals the extent of fake goods in the UK and investigates the con men who are trying to get their hands on your money.

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Fake Britain: Series 2 - 30 Minute Versions

Dominic Littlewood

Samantha Beddoes

Emma Barker

Fake Britain: Series 2 - 30 Minute Versions: Episode 9

Episode 9

Series 2 - 30 Minute Versions

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We reveal the extraordinary amount of fake electrical cable being found in the UK.

With Dominic Littlewood. We reveal the extraordinary amount of fake electrical cable being found in the UK and put some of it to the test with alarming results.

With Dominic Littlewood. 

Fake Britain reveals the extraordinary amount of fake electrical cable being found in the UK, and puts some of it to the test, with alarming results. 

There's a look at how the trading standards and police teams in the Midlands are cracking down on the huge trade in fake and smuggled cigarettes, and how people are being conned into believing that works of art they bought as antiques are anything but - because they have been made recently in Chinese factories! 

Plus, the extraordinary identity theft story of how a UK passport stolen on a stag weekend in Amsterdam put an innocent Brit in prison ten years later in Lisbon - for a crime committed in Germany.

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Dominic Littlewood reveals the extent of fake goods in the UK. Contains revised repeats.

Dominic Littlewood reveals the extent of fake goods in the UK. Episodes in this series have previously been broadcast in a different form

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