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BBC Breakfast contacted around 200 UK businesses and charities in March, across different industries, from sole traders to large companies to get a sense of the impact of the increase in employer National Insurance Contributions.

Deputy council leader Paul Bradley said: "Although it is spring, we are already planning for our Christmas events, which bring communities together to celebrate and are a welcome boost to footfall for our traders."

There are many legitimate traders – but a lack of regulation has enabled fraudsters to exploit the market.

But many traders told the BBC that they exported volumes of tyres in excess of the permitted limit, meaning they would have been exporting more tyres than they should.

He added that the market was "flooded" with rogue traders like the ones who targeted Allan.