POLICE and trading standards officials are keen to talk to two salesmen who are going from door-to-door selling furniture.

They are selling cut price three-piece suites from the back of a white van.

The suites, said to be leather, are almost hidden in polythene wrapping and are in fact made of PVC.

Two men are involved in the scam.

Reports about the men have been coming in, for several months, from Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool - and now from east Cleveland.

Concerned residents from Guisborough and Saltburn have reported visits from the conmen.

As yet, no-one is thought to have bought any of the furniture.

Michelle O'Rourke, trading standards support officer with Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council, said: "We urge residents not to buy at the door from anyone they do not know.

"The purchase of any piece of furniture shouldn't be something that's done across the doorstep,'' she said. "These incidents give a warning of how costly impulsive buying can be.''

Redcar and Cleveland Council is dealing with the menace of bogus callers at a Homeguard exhibition at Sunnyfield House, Guisborough, today as part of a security drive taking place for National Consumer Week.