AMAZON BANS NUMBER PLATES

Online retailer Amazon is banning sale of car number plates on its platform after a BBC London investigation exposed hey were being illegally supplied.

The BBC found seven companies on the platform were selling number plates without checking customers documents and establishing their legal entitlement to the plate .

It is illegal for UK companies to supply number plates without physically seeing documents such as a driving licensor V5 document.

Amazon said all seven products from the companies the BBC investigated had been removed and sales of all number plates would cease apart from novelty plates.

The online retailer said removing the number plates was not an immediate process , and it would take a while for it to take down the items being sold by third party vendors