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A shop has lost its licence after it was caught selling alcohol and an illegal vape to a child.

John’s Booze in Jowetts Lane, West Bromwich, had its licence revoked by Sandwell Council after searches at the store found hundreds of wrongly labelled cigarettes, illicit erectile dysfunction tablets, banned chewing tobacco and prohibited oversized vapes.

The shop, which opens from 7am to midnight every day, was run by licence holder Samanpreet Singh Bagri until the morning of the council hearing when a request was made to transfer the licence to family friend Harbir Sandhu.

Mr Sandhu, who was present at the hearing on November 10, vowed to turn the shop around but was unable to convince councillors who were concerned by the shop’s “notorious track record.”

At the hearing, We

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