Big supermarkets still selling knives to children

Trading Standards test purchases found retailers failing to prevent sale of knives to children on 15% of occasionsChildren are still buying knives from big UK supermarkets including Tesco and Asda – despite retailers’ recent public pledges to toughen up their sales policies – according to the results of tests carried out by National Trading Standards officers.It is illegal to sell a knife to anyone under the age of 18, yet the new data shows that of 2,231 official “test p