34 h. ago Officers seize more than £3million of illegal cigarettes, vapes and tobacco in north London shop raids

The council's team uncovered tonnes of cigarettes, hand-rolling tobacco, vapes, and shisha tobacco in what has been termed Operation CeCe.

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3 d. ago Three shops shut down in Greater Manchester town for selling illegal goods

There has been six shops shut down over six months in the town

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3 w. ago Swansea shopkeeper who sold illegal vapes ordered to cough up six

Kashif Iqbal was involved in selling "thousands" of illegal and unregulated vapes

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3 w. ago Shop sold vape to child and had illegal products seized in sting operation

South Wales Police, together with Neath Port Talbot Council's trading standards team carried out test purchases

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3 w. ago Inside fight against black market cigarette trade as cops tackle network of shops illegally flogging fags for £5 a pack

SLOWLY prising away a kick board at the bottom of some shelves, the police find exactly what they are looking for. Dozens of cartons of brightly packaged cigarettes, which are being sold illegally in the UK. They are often flogged for as little as £5 a packet and show none of the graphic warnings smokers...

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3 w. ago ‘We can never forget’: the fight for answers as displays of black US soldiers removed from Dutch cemetery

Relatives fear removal is part of ‘same virus affecting the US’, as historians and politicians say it coincided with Trump’s DEI purgeA white marble cross marks the final resting place of Julius W Morris, private first class in the US army, who died in April 1945.But at the cemetery where he lies in Margraten, a village in the south of the Netherlands, a new battle has begun over the quiet removal of two display panels about African American soldiers, like Morris. Continue reading...

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