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Gloucestershire TS has prosecuted a local shopkeeper who sold illegal vapes
Posted 30 October 2024 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Updates|Vapes|South West
UPDATES: A Gloucester shop owner has been ordered to pay more than £6,000 after repeated Trading Standards visits uncovered large quantities of illegal oversized disposable vapes at his shop and in his car.
The owner of a shop which repeatedly sold illegal vapes has been fined more than £6,000 following an investigation by Gloucestershire County Council Trading Standards.
During an inspection of the One Stop Shop on Gloucester’s Southgate Street on 7 February, Trading Standards Officers found 1,005 vapes containing more than two millilitres of nicotine liquid. Hiwa Elyasi (22) of New St...
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