3 d. ago Brit OAP 'Billy Boy' accused of £200k meth smuggling after 'losing life savings to fraudsters'

William Eastment, 79, was intercepted at Santiago Airport after allegedly being found with more than 5kg of methamphetamine, worth £200,000, hidden in his suitcase

Economics

4 d. ago Neighbours gobsmacked by 'second life' of OAP 'caught with meth' who loves bowls

William ‘Billy Boy' Eastment was intercepted at Santiago Airport allegedly with £200,000 worth of meth and his neighbours in in Milborne Port, Somerset, are shocked by the accusations

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5 d. ago British OAP 'caught with 5kg of meth' in Chile is bowls fan from sleepy village

William ‘Billy Boy' Eastment is being held in jail in Chile after drugs were alledgedly found in his suitcase.

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5 d. ago Brit, 79, 'caught with 5kg of meth' in Chile is bowls fan from sleepy Dorset village

William ‘Billy Boy' Eastment faces dying behind prison bars if found guilty after the 79-year-old was arrested at Santiago Airport with a suitcase allegedly containing £200,000 worth of the class A drug

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5 d. ago Brit, 79, 'caught with 5kg of meth' in Chile is bowls fan from sleepy Somerset village

William ‘Billy Boy' Eastment faces dying behind prison bars if found guilty after the 79-year-old was arrested at Santiago Airport with a suitcase allegedly containing £200,000 worth of the class A drug

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5 d. ago British pensioner 'drug mule', 79, arrested in Chile claims Mexican gang promised him £3.7million to carry suitcase with 5kg of crystal meth

A British pensioner has been arrested in Chile after a Mexican gang allegedly promised him £3.7million to smuggle a suitcase of crystal meth.

Economics

8 d. ago Brit dad loses two stone by changing one thing as doctor gives him thumbs up

"So far I’ve lost 12.5kg. I reached my original goal weight of 87.6kg in two months. I set a new target of 83.5kg, which I achieved a month later."

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1 week ago Brit pensioner 'arrested in Chile after trying to smuggle 5kg of meth'

The 79-year-old man, who authorities have been named, was arrested at Santiago Airport in Chile, where he had arrived on a flight from the Mexican resort of Cancun

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1 week ago I lost £150,000 of my life savings after investing in a holiday park scheme

Christopher Lightfoot, from Lincoln, signed up with a company called Liv Lodges - which trades as LL Lincoln LTD - who he said painted a rosy picture of a new potential income stream.

Economics

2 w. ago Aching Bad! Frail pensioners, 80 and 67, were duped into smuggling crystal meth into the UK inside bags of chocolate truffles

Tonny Ezeh (pictured), 51, convinced Heinz Magel, 80, and a 67-year-old man they were entitled to legitimate cash windfalls and they had to travel abroad to get paid.

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3 w. ago Life after Lennon Miller: Motherwell boss preparing to lose young star

Michael Wimmer hopes the teenage midfielder makes the right next step

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3 w. ago ‘Right now all of us lose’: Shakhtar claim Ukrainian Cup in glimpse of past life

Final against Dynamo Kyiv had edge, flares and burning Russian flags but some of the enmity has gone; as one fan says: ‘Aggression must stay in the war zone’Valeriy Bondar vaults a perfunctory metal fence, is handed a flare from somewhere in the melee and waves it around in the night sky. Shakhtar Donetsk have won the Ukrainian Cup, finally beating Dynamo Kyiv on penalties: light and smoke fill the air in Polissya Stadion’s south-west corner but there is something else, too. A trickle of supporters have been allowed back into many of the country’s arenas since February 2024 but more than 5,000 are packed in this time and the scenes are redolent of a different era. There has been no occasion quite like this on Ukraine’s soil for well over three years.Fireworks have been a theme all day. Ninety minutes before kick-off in Zhytomyr several dozen Shakhtar ultras from different groups convene on a footbridge that dramatically spans the River Teteriv, towards the outskirts of this neat pro...

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last month Drugs gang import £7m of crystal meth disguised as weight loss shakes

Six members of a drug gang have been jailed after more than £7 million of crystal meth was smuggled into the UK, disguised as weight loss shakes.

Economics