Three men have been jailed after they were caught with more than 1.5 million illegal cigarettes in a South Shields warehouse…. ...more
Hundreds of people have come forward with illicit tobacco tip offs since the launch of a new local authority-funded campaign in the North East of England. ...more
Hundreds of people have come forward with tip offs about illegal tobacco following the launch of a local initiative. ...more
MORE than 350 anonymous tip offs from the public have been received by trading standards teams since the launch of a campaign tackling the sale of illegal tobacco. ...more
THREE men have been jailed after they were caught with more than 1.5 million illegal cigarettes disguised as road surfacing material at a warehouse Northern Echo ...more
Thousands of illegal cigarettes with a market value of £24,000 have been seized from a home in Newcastle. Trading standards officers with Newcastle City Council visited the residential property on Wednesday morning. https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/illegal-cigarettes-tobacco-newcastle-west-14982927 ...more
A Stockton shop has lost its booze licence after the owner tried to transfer his licence to a “mate” following a trading standards raid. https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/shop-targeted-counterfeit-raid-loses-14969984 ...more
The tobacco industry is working to secure control of a system to track the movement of cigarettes around the world, allegedly because it is complicit in the smuggling of its own products, according to a new research paper. ...more
The premises licence allowing a mini-market to sell alcohol has been revoked by councillors who heard of a series of tobacco busts. ...more
The couple made hundreds of thousands of pounds in the process, with the potential turnover of the business estimated at between £936,000 and £1.2million over the course of three years. ...more
