内容摘要：Mr Jones, who reported the incident to the police, said it had had a massive impact on his daily life.

Mr Jones, who reported the incident to the police, said it had had a massive impact on his daily life.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs estimates almost five million single-use vapes were either littered or thrown into general waste each week last year.Environment minister Mary Creagh said: "For too long, single-use vapes have blighted our streets as litter and hooked our children on nicotine. That ends today.

"The government calls time on these nasty devices."But Action on Smoking and Health chief executive Hazel Cheeseman questioned what impact the ban would have, pointing out new refillable vape kits were coming on to the market that look and cost similar to the single-use ones.She said it would not be until the Tobacco and Vapes Bill, which includes powers to regulate marketing, branding and advertising, came into power that the issue of youth vaping could be truly tackled.

"Their appeal is driven by bright colours, wide availability and cheap prices," she said."The new regulations will hopefully help to address the environmental impact, but government will need further regulations to address the appeal of products to teenagers."

She said this was very much a balancing act as vapes were an important tool to help people quit.

"Vaping is very much less harmful than smoking and is the most popular aid to quitting in the UK," she added.There have been honours, such as CBEs and OBEs, but no knighthoods.

at the ground in Leeds where they used to play.revealed that a disproportionately low number of top honours, such as knighthoods and damehoods, were going to people from the north of England and working class backgrounds - which overlaps with the rugby league heartlands.

In the most recent New Year Honours only 6% of higher awards went to people in the north of England and 4% to people from working-class backgrounds.The government has recognised there are problems with under-representation in the honours and an independent chair is being recruited to improve diversity and outreach.