A County Durham woman has been ordered to pay over £1,000 after counterfeit cigarettes and tobacco were found in her shop.
Durham County Council’s Trading Standards team took legal action against Jennifer Spensley, of Cheesmond Avenue, Bishop Auckland, after officers inspected News and Homeware Convenience Store in St Helen Auckland.
Investigators found a number of what appeared to be Kent, Richmond, JPS, and Lambert & Butler cigarettes, and Turner tobacco behind the counter and in the shop’s store room.