Christian Barnett

G&G Market in High Street, Cradley Heath, faces a Sandwell Council licensing review after authorities found it selling illegal cigarettes and tobacco products, including to an undercover child, as well as prescription-only medicine. Licence holder Hozan Sharify will appear before the council’s licensing committee, while West Midlands Police and Sandwell Trading Standards are seeking revocation of the shop’s licence. The premises has already been ordered closed for three months by Dudley magistrates. Officials say repeated offences, concealed stock, a lack of legal cigarettes and the proprietors’ conduct indicate that supplying illicit tobacco was the shop’s primary purpose.