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Essex shop closed for selling counterfeit tobacco and vapes

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Magistrates have ordered a Grays tobacconist to close for three months and pay over £4,500 costs after being prosecuted for selling counterfeit and illegal tobacco and vapes for the second time in less than six months. Thurrock Council’s trading standards team, accompanied by a tobacco…

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