Vape shops are forced to shut in crackdowns

EIGHT vape shops have been ordered to close for months following raids by trading standards officers.

- CONOR GOGARTY

The Swansea businesses are suspected of selling illegal nicotine products.

Earlier this month officers from Swansea Council and South Wales Police raided 14 premises and issued 48-hour closure orders against nine of them as part of a crackdown on black market cigarettes and vapes.

For the following eight shops those orders have now been extended to three months:

■Bob CBD Vapes at 29 Union Street in the city centre;

■Snoop Vapes at 71 High Street in the city centre;

■Asia Vapes at 40 St Helen's Road in Sandfields;

■Bob Marley Vapes at 75 St Helen's Road in Sandfields;

■Crystal Vapes at 95 Gorseinon High Street;

■Kubus Vapes at 31b St Helen's Road in Sandfields;

■World of Vapes at 89 St Teilo Street, Pontarddulais; and,

■Morriston Minimarket at 86 Woodfield Street, Morriston.