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Hyndburn Police confiscate £1.65 million of illegal vapes and tobacco

Hyndburn Police and Trading Standards seized a large quantity of illegal goods from an empty commercial property in Oswaldtwistle.

The items seized on October 30, included approximately 100,000 packs of illegal cigarettes and hand rolling tobacco, and hundreds of illegal non-regulation vapes.

The total retail value of the confiscated items is approximately £1.65 million. Additionally, packaging used to manufacture counterfeit cigarettes was also confiscated.

Local neighbourhood sergeant, Carl McCoy, said: “These products can pose serious health risks to users and often do not comply with safety regulations.

“We will continue to work with our partners to remove these illicit goods from the streets of Lancashire, and we would urge our communities to report shops who are breaking the law.”

Any information about the sale of illegal tobacco or vaping products, can be reported here:  https://doitonline.lancashire.police.uk/PEDisclaimer/Create

Helen Greaney
If you have interesting things happening at your company in Lancashire, I'm the news editor here and I'd love to hear it. I'm a senior journalist with more than 18 years' experience in local, regional and national newspapers, as well as in digital PR.
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