{"id":21473,"date":"2025-10-23T19:21:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T19:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/fighting-the-crime-gangs-taking-over-the-uk-high-streets-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T19:21:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T19:21:37","slug":"fighting-the-crime-gangs-taking-over-the-uk-high-streets-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/fighting-the-crime-gangs-taking-over-the-uk-high-streets-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting the crime gangs taking over the UK high streets | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pCQ9r7lguug?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Along a one-mile stretch of road near the centre of Newport, south Wales, 19 shops have been shut down in the past nine months for selling illegal tobacco and vapes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s shameful that this is happening,&#8221; Steve Hay, one of the Trading Standards team responsible for the closures, said.<\/p>\n<p>He believes that the sale of illegal goods is a crime causing deep problems in the community.<\/p>\n<p>Illegal cigarettes, tobacco and vape products were seized from 3,624 shops across England, Scotland and Wales in 2024-25, according to BBC Freedom of Information requests.<\/p>\n<p>The Home Office said that &#8220;over 500 town centres are getting extra neighbourhood patrols&#8221; and that these would have a major role in cracking down on the sale of illegal tobacco products.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#Crime #UK #BBCNews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pCQ9r7lguug\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along a one-mile stretch of road near the centre of Newport, south Wales, 19 shops have been shut down in the past nine months for selling illegal tobacco and vapes. &#8220;It&#8217;s shameful that this is happening,&#8221; Steve Hay, one of the Trading Standards team responsible for the closures, said. He believes that the sale of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21475,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21473\/revisions\/21475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}