Another hoard of illegal cigarettes has been removed from a Great Yarmouth town centre shop.

https://twitter.com/GYarmouthPolice/status/994178572423254016

A joint operation between Norfolk Trading Standards and Great Yarmouth police saw a shop raided in King Street.

A Tweet from Great Yarmouth police said it was a joint operation to remove “illegal and potentially dangerous tobacco off the streets of Yarmouth”.

There have been similar previous raids in the town before.

MORE; illegal cigarettes raidIn January more than 27,000 illegal cigarettes were seized in raids on two shops, with a sniffer dog finding some of the stash hidden in a secret compartment behind a water heater.

MORE; 27,000 illegal cigarettes foundThe King Street shop is next door to one commonly known as Yarmouth Food & Wine, which had been raided before in September with smuggled cigarettes and tobacco found in an elaborate hide, dug into the wall behind an electrical fuse box in the store room.