A Wallsend shop has had its alcohol licence revoked after police and trading standards connected the shop to the alleged sale of illegal tobacco.
Police officers and officials from trading standards seized 65,000 illegal cigarettes and 13.5kg of prohibited rolling tobacco from Booze Master Food Centre on February 9.
The officials were acting on intelligence gathered from locals who alleged they had witnessed the sale of unusually cheap tobacco products and alcohol in the High East Street store.
