Three North Tyneside shops caught selling alcohol to an underage teen are at risk of losing their licenses.
Northumbria Police officers and cadets paired up with North Tyneside Council’s trading standards team last week to carry out test purchases at a range of local off-licenses and shops. A 16-year-old volunteer, one of the Force’s trained cadets, was asked to enter each shop and attempt to buy alcohol – and was denied service by five premises.
But the underage boy was allowed to leave three stores in the region with booze. All three stores, one in Cullercoats and two in Whitley Bay, were issued with fixed penalty notices, a fine amounting to £90, and will now risk losing their license to sell alcohol when it is reviewed in the coming months by the council.
