Shop which sold alcohol and cigarettes to schoolchildren has licence suspended
manchestereveningnews.co.ukdirect to your inboxA Stalybridge shop which sold alcohol and ‘cigarettes for 50p each’ to underage schoolchildren has had its licence suspended.Members of Tameside’s licensing panel along with police and council chiefs held a review into the licence of Jits Super Shop on Monday (January 11).The committee was told that several incidents of underage sales had been reported at the off licence on Market Street since 2018.Previous conditions had been imposed on the shop in 2019 which required 24/7 CCTV to be in operation and Challenge 25 procedures to be in place.However in June last year, PC Antony Lawton saw four youngsters leaving the shop carrying a plastic bag and when questioned, found them to be carrying alcohol which they said they had.
Read more on manchestereveningnews.co.uk