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Bucks store joins the growing list of closures after vape and tobacco raids

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An Aylesbury convenience store has become the latest to face an enforced legal closure for attempting to sell counterfeit and illegal vapes and tobacco. Stoke Convenience Store in Stoke Road was this week (3 December) issued with a one-month closure order by Milton Keynes magistrates…

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