Everyone wants to bring back some cheap alcohol or cigarettes when abroad and the duty free shops are the perfect answer. But you need to know what your allowance is otherwise you can end up paying some hefty fines or just leaving your duty free behind!

Here are the quantities you are allowed to bring back to the UK:

• 3200 cigarettes
• 400 cigarillos
• 200 cigars
• 3 kg of smoking tobacco
• 110 litres of beer
• 10 litres of spirits
• 90 litres of wine
• 20 litres of fortified wine e.g. port or sherry