The number of children experimenting with vaping has increased by 50 per cent year on year, a court has heard.

The alarming statistic comes amid an ongoing probe into more than a dozen Bob Shops in Birmingham , with some already having been prosecuted for selling illegal cigarettes and vapes.

Yesterday (Monday, August 11), as the latest franchise shopkeeper received a suspended sentence Judge Dean Kershaw stated the 'vast majority' were being used as a 'front for money laundering'.

While Birmingham City Council prosecutor Mark Jackson stated Bob Shops were being 'used by organised criminals and criminal gangs'.

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The latter confirmed that 15 were under investigation following

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