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Cash, rats and hidden compartments: Inside the fight against dodgy vape shops, barbers, and car washes
What's happening
SignalsMonitor is following this as a security story. Manchester Evening News is the outlet attached so far. The first report grouped here was at 28 Oct 2026, 16:47 UTC. The headline in use is “Cash, rats and hidden compartments: Inside the fight against dodgy vape shops, barbers, and car washes”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
Reporter Chris Slater spent the day with police and trading standards as they employed sniffer dogs and carried out painstaking searches of more than half a dozen premises looking for illicit goods
Manchester Evening NewsRead at Manchester Evening News
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- Manchester Evening News