"Thirty US-themed sweet shops on London's Oxford Street are being investigated"

BBC:

Westminster City Council said it had seized about £474,000 of counterfeit and illegal goods from American candy and souvenir stores in the past six months, including unsafe vapes.

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The council said they were "far from regular and legitimate businesses".

A spokesperson added "very few" of the shops were "serving sufficient customers to be commercially viable".

"Instead, we believe that these properties are used to avoid business rate bills and possibly commit other offences."

I was trying to find if I'd posted about this before. Couldn't find it, but did find these UK-tagged articles from the last year or so:

Town in Ireland realizes it would be too expensive to dig up its time capsule to celebrate the town's 200th anniversary

Demented story about the founder of the Financial Times, who was also Churchill's private secretary and First Lord of the Admiralty

"The Debatable Lands is believed to have been the last great territorial division in Britain"

Royal Mint's new tribute coin to H.G. Wells includes a quote he didn't say, and depicts his famous tripods as having four legs

If Columbo used his tricks for evil