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As they are, in Accrington's Market Hall.
Openly, and as 'poppers', and to youngsters, as I witnessed this afternoon.
Perhaps the cabinet member for markets on H.B.C., Cllr. Marlene Haworth would find her time more usefully spent if she knew what she was allowing to be sold in Accrington's historic Market Hall.
Rather than ride rough shod over the majority of the market traders' wishes, and go against over a century's worth of tradition, and force the traders to open, and work a six day week.