Councils to get more powers to stop vape and betting shops
New vape shops will require planning permission and councils will get more powers to block new betting shops, under government plans aimed at improving high
New vape shops will require planning permission and councils will get more powers to block new betting shops, under government plans aimed at improving high streets.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham said town centres had been "hollowed out" by decades of decline and "for many people, the high streets they grew up with have become unrecognisable".
BBC News has exposed organised crime on high streets across the country, revealing shops selling illegal cigarettes and vapes, selling cannabis and cocaine, enabling illegal working and suspected money-laundering.
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