Newsagent slapped with tobacco sale ban

A Stirling newsagent has been banned from selling tobacco products for two years following an investigation by Stirling and Clackmannanshire’s trading standards service.

The council applied for a tobacco retailing ban against Turnbulls (Stirling) Limited, Glasgow Road, Stirling, after they were caught breaching the tobacco display ban on two occasions and failing to display a statutory tobacco notice. Health secretary Shona Robison has promised bereaved families that improvements will be made following a review into adverse events at a maternity unit where some babies died.

Ms Robison told Holyrood the “substandard” practices uncovered within NHS Ayrshire and Arran were “unacceptable” as she gave a personal commitment that action would be taken.

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