Shop issued with Temporary Closure Order

Published Tuesday, 7th December 2021

A problem shop has been ordered to close by magistrates following an application by Hartlepool Borough Council.

At a hearing on Friday 3 December, Teesside Magistrates Court was told that the Council's Trading Standards department had made a number of test purchases of counterfeit tobacco from the International Food Store, 45 Murray Street, Hartlepool, and that two operations conducted by Trading Standards and Cleveland Police using a sniffer dog also found illicit tobacco on the premises.

A temporary Closure Order was granted under the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 pending a full hearing on Wednesday 15 December.