You won't believe what our Trading Standards team found
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Recently, our Trading Standards team raided a newsagents in Blackburn for illicit cigarettes, tobacco and vapes.
After finding some evidence, the team had a hunch they would come across some products that weren't supposed to be there.
Watch to see sniffer dog Sky come across some surprising finds.
We ask businesses in Blackburn with Darwen to always trade fairly and legally and source their stock from legitimate, well-known suppliers. If they have any queries with regards to the legality of any products that they intend to stock, our Trading Standards team can advise businesses for free on this matter. Please call 01254 585585 and ask for Trading Standards.
Should consumers become aware of illicit products being made available in our borough, they can report it online at: keep-it-out.co.uk, or call Citizens advice, for free on 0808 223 1133.
If taxes were not so high, then people would buy it legit. 🤔 🇬🇧
Government has to pay all these DEI, inclusisivity officers as well as Sadiq's low traffic neighborhoods.
Well said
Smoking has always been such a waste of money in my eyes. But if people are struggling, we have to give up some things that aren't needed.
What a joke these things are becoming. The police and countless other groups will turn out if some tax is being lost but if your car, house or self have been robbed they just give a 'crime number' over the telephone. If your juvenile daughter is being abused by a grooming gang, they will arrest the father to make sure he doesn't stop the attack on his daughter. Lancashire constabulary and the councils disgust me.
If only you applied this level of due diligence around the issues that are destroying our beloved country 🏴
Dodgy shops in Blackburn. Who would of thought it.
Same demographic, I live in a Town on the East coast, In two and a half mile stretch of road, There are 33 Foreign hair dressers, and 30 foreign shops. Most never seemed to have any Customers, but all have flashing bright lights on 24/7.
Its amazing. If the local population can not make a shop work, how can the foreign owned shop work, even if they owners work it themselves, which they don't. How does the revenue service not come down on these. why are they not fined into oblivion. all these businesses never pay tax , mainly cash, with illegals working there. 😞
Forgot the Merc parked out front!
Meanwhile serial killers and snuff movie peddlers are left unabated.
What the fuck are you on about
They're all at it all want shutting down
Fkin right
Looks to be more about HM Revenue & Customs than Trading Standards.
Illicit tobacco is most definitely TS. HMRC can investigate separately for duty evasion.
Yet another vape shop has opened next to new, hardly frequented barbers (1 of 4 on the parade) in Hove. All highly legal, im sure.
So the owner will sell the Business instantly to His Brother in Law and will skip back to Pakistan and after a year return with a new name and buy back the Business- simples and they do it all the time same as when they owe VAT.
I've seen the same. Police turn up en masse as well. One of the reasons why you can't get help with assaults, major injures etc, All the police helping with 'revenue collection'. Taxes and £1.50 bus fares.
Just remember the fluid selling raids for Bills gentech fluid. Prepare the population by locking down even gyms by a police raid. You have to close immediately.
Some years later the Mayor of Town moans about the empty former city centres. Really?
Police help with bus fares?
So no charges brought...
...thats a complete waste of time
Those corner shops in blackburn been selling illegal cigarettes for over 20yrs i remember cause i use to smoke back then and was asked lots of times if i wanted to buy cheap cigarettes
I bet the owner pretended he bought the shop recently and didnt know they was there He wants a Big Fine and not be allowed to open another shop He knows he was doing wrong and been doing it for years
Grass
@@Jon-LFC-163 not a single thing in there grassed anyone up everyone knows corner shops sell fake / illegal shit
There everywhere mainly Romanian shops
I buy illicit cigarettes 🚬, I can’t afford £20 a pack! Government pick on the smokers yet alcohol which is the biggest killer is dirt cheap!!!
Is that how much they cost these days? I haven’t bought cig’s for years think last time I did they were around £6 for 20, I thought that was too much so packed in smoking, I’d never pay £20 a pk.
you should be refused NHS treatment ,
They love making a profit off others' misery.
@@newton18311 How much tax has OP paid?
Pity they don't put this much effort into investing grape gangs
Grape gang 😂😂😂😂
It's not counterfeit tabaacco.. it's just not been bonded. To many cops doing useless jobs...
Easy prey, how about getting out there and sorting real crime. All about money, that’s all
Car washes loads of cash money laundering .
They would tax the air we breathe if they could!
They already do it's called ULEZ. Coming to a town near you very soon
How many cops does it take to change a light bulb while people are being robbed and assaulted?
Just leave the poor working man and women alone ffs
NO they sell this shite to school kid.
Don't raid barber shops
Deterrents and punishment - capital and corporal punishment must be vigorously reintroduced surely? No government benefits to convicted criminal’s family. A start?
Funny how they don't recognise weed as medically beneficial but Britain exports more medical canbis than most countries 🙄
@@offgrid5817 Teresa Mays husband grows and sells for export
Blackpool Dickson rd 3 shops i know selling this stuff for at least 3 years
Fine them don't work they shut up shop move shop round corner put it in some one else name like brother name etc
Jail they sell this to the kids all you have to do is stand outside a school a 3pm loads have vapes
I was surprised the police and trading standards officers were not wearing gloves to handle the illegal merchandise for fingerprints etc.
Thank God there are angels like you to save us from those evil strong vapes and cheap baccy.
I would say this is hurting the consumers more than helping them.
Need to go check all these barber shops out!
Yall forgot to check the roof and the floor
For all of you people whining about this being a simple tax raid consider this. The only income a government has is taxes. Those taxes fund the NHS, your children's schooling and state pensions amongst others.
No, I'm nothing to do with HMRC, Police or Trading Standards.
But most of it tho goes to the richest hence why we can't have anything nice in the uk
No they borrow at an alarming rate!Give themselves pension ie pm made a law just for him to get £350,000 a year!
let people live how they want, not having to abide by stupid rules
Well done guys keep it up infact bust more.again well done.
Barely anything there
Excellent work 👍
This is how the kids get vapes .
And he will restock and be selling again before you have processed the paperwork.
Vapes with big tanks are not a problem really.Trading standards should be doing this job.
its disposables with more than 600 puff than arent allowed they dont have a tank they got the shitty cotton around the coil, tanks are what u put the liquid in on a refillable
@MrTwister420I bought a disposable the other day 2000 puffs apparently this was from a legit shop
And carboots ... Says no vapes. Yet guy is really busy 😮..
Not to mention selling to kids. Let's be honest, thay all do it.
They have vat scam.
Most eu shops sell illicit baccy and the like rampant in wakey etc
I bet you sleep better at night
They store them in old cars parked illegally,They use them as storage ive seen it.
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Offs sake, can’t you do something constructive with your lives.
The manufacture and sale of all vapes should be banned. Cigarette smoking in non public spaces or in licenced venues should be allowed but smokers must have proof of private health insurance to buy cigarettes and smoke them. (I miss the smell of pipe tobacco from the past)
oh all vapes banned cos you dont like it?
@@MrZx9rdoug Because they are using chemicals that are worse than tobacco. I would also ban all smoking but that would not happen.
@@MrZx9rdoug no they should be banned cuz theyre awful for you quitting those things was best thing i ever did i can hold my breath longer than 20 second now
Vapeing saved my life got me off ciggys I can breath normal 40 years smoking never felt better .
@@lablackzed get off them aswell you'll breathe even better then you clown
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Yet another opportunity for youtube's anti-cop and anti-authority brigade to rant.
What a farcical YT channel... go away and do proper work, serving the public ffs...
These people resell what they seize. Hypocrisy
No they don't. Daftest comment on here. Has the poor baby had some stuff seized and is a bit upset?
All nicotine should be illegal.
You are "asking" if you are okay with dogs? Never. Do you want to have a maybe smelling dog in *your own property* if you are an innocent shop owner?
It's another way to mistreat small businesses with another excuse, 🛑
What about marketplace facebbok plenty of that stuff over there😂
Deport Deport
as cilla said surprise surprise same crew selling this shit
Could recive a substantial fine they should do 💯 percent 🤬🇬🇧
All an act. They don’t arrest Muslims 😂😂😂
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