There is rarely compensation for anyone buying counterfeit goods

Counterfeit CDs and clothes with a street value of �22,500 have been donated to charity.

More than 1,000 music disks and hundreds of garments confiscated from car boot sales across South Gloucestershire were given to the St David's Foundation Hospice Care organisation.

The goods include shirts bearing Ralph Lauren and Nike logos and chart CDs by the Stereophonics and Dido.

A spokesman for South Gloucestershire council said some good would be resold through the charity shop - with the labels first removed - while the CDs could be "wiped" and sold as blank disks.

'Poor quality'

Other goods would be turned into dusters or rags and CDs would be crushed at a facility used by the charity, he said.

South Gloucestershire Council spokesman Neil Derrick said: "Buyers should take great care as these items appear to be bargains but are often very poor quality.

"For example video recordings on CD will often not play at all due to errors made in the copying process, or the sound quality may be poor and out of time with the picture."

Consumers who purchased faulty counterfeit goods often obtained no redress or compensation, he said.