4 h. ago Suspected drug deaths in Scotland jump 20% in one year as John Swinney urged to a get a grip on crisis

Labour warned the "brutal reality is that John Swinney’s approach is failing both victims and communities" when it comes to the number of Scots killed by drugs.

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4 h. ago Police find drug dealer carrying machine gun bullets during raid

Kareem Abdo, 30, later told police he had learning difficulties and people "took advantage of him".

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6 h. ago Former gang member escapes from prison as public placed on high alert and police scale area

Liam Wall was sent to prison in 2017

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7 h. ago 12 drivers arrested as Scottish police issue stark Christmas drink and drug warning

Police are carrying out extra road checks and patrols over the coming weeks.

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8 h. ago 'Do not approach' warning from police as drug gang member escapes from UK jail

Liam Wall, 36, was convicted of drug offences at Cardiff Crown court in 2017 and has now escaped from HMP Prescoed in South Wales - police are urging members of the public not to approach him

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9 h. ago Convict Liam Wall absconds from UK prison as police warn public 'do not approach'

The police are appealing for help from the public after an inmate has absconded from a prison in Wales - the force have warned to not approach the prisoner but are asking for help to locate the man

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14 h. ago Convict Liam Wall escapes from South Wales prison as police warn public 'do not approach'

Police are appealing for information to help find the man that has escaped from prison

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38 h. ago Ukraine war briefing: Britain’s spy chief to warn of Russia’s ‘expansionist threat’ as Berlin talks enter second day

MI6 chief to deliver remarks on Monday warning ‘chaos is a feature not a bug in the Russian approach’; European leaders to join day two of talks in Berlin. What we know on day 1,391The head of Britain’s foreign spy service, known as MI6, will warn that Russia poses an “aggressive, expansionist, and revisionist” threat, in her first speech since taking office. Blaise Metreweli took over from Richard Moore in October, becoming the first female chief of MI6. “[Vladimir] Putin should be in no doubt, our support is enduring. The pressure we apply on Ukraine’s behalf will be sustained,” Metreweli will say on Monday, according to advance extracts of her remarks. “The export of chaos is a feature not a bug in the Russian approach to international engagement, and we should be ready for this to continue until Putin is forced to change his calculus,” she said, according to the extract.Separately, Richard Knighton, head of Britain’s armed forces, will also call in a separate speech on Monday fo...

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4 d. ago Moment confused drug driver slurs his words and struggles to even speak with cops after ploughing into wall

A DRUG-DRIVER has been captured on police bodycam - so out of it he struggled to speak during the arrest. Officers received reports of a car being driven erratically and found Jack Brownless, 39, stopped at a nearby crossroads. Brownless had swerved across the A39 and hit a wall before concerned members of the public...

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5 d. ago 'Human Barbie' TikTok star could be 'dug up' amid fears she was 'strangled to death'

Bárbara Jankavski Marquez died last month following what São Paulo police believed was a drug overdose - prosecutors are now exploring whether she may have been murdered

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6 d. ago Reported drug deaths in Ayrshire cause concern as police focus on crackdown

Apparent drug overdoses and deaths cause concern amongst community.

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8 d. ago Turkish police officer dies from gunshot wounds suffered in Istanbul drug raid

Turkish officials say a police officer has died after being shot during a drug raid in Istanbul

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8 d. ago Moment pregnant girlfriend is proposed to by her drug dealing boyfriend... unaware police were about to bust them in £26million trafficking racket

Heavily pregnant Saskia Steward, 26, had no clue that just weeks after the proposal they would both end up in a police cell - after being busted over a £26m drugs racket.

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1 week ago Macron reportedly warned Zelenskyy US may ‘betray Ukraine on territory’

Der Spiegel quotes leaked call in which European leaders voice doubts about Washington’s approach to peace talksEmmanuel Macron has reportedly warned Volodymyr Zelenskyy that “there is a chance that the US will betray Ukraine on territory, without clarity on security guarantees”, the German magazine Der Spiegel reported, quoting a leaked note from a recent call with several European leaders.Der Spiegel said it had obtained an English summary of Monday’s call, featuring what it said were direct quotations from European heads of government in which they expressed fundamental doubts about Washington’s approach to the talks. Continue reading...

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1 week ago It's 6am on a quiet Salford estate, but not everybody is asleep

Greater Manchester Police is tackling an 'innovative' drug operation blighting the streets of the city

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2 w. ago Drug dealer reached speeds of 103mph in police chase before crash

Luke Jones, 28, and Louis Hall, 26, were found in possession of 44g of crack cocaine with a street value between £2,790 and £3,330

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2 w. ago Police refused to name drug dealer who was passed confidential information by his trainee officer girlfriend to 'protect his welfare'

Corrupt Maryam Ilyas (pictured), 20, trawled force systems at West Yorkshire Police to secretly pass on intelligence to her drug-dealing boyfriend.

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2 w. ago Moment police helicopter swoops in to back up officers during dramatic chase of suspected drug dealer

A suspected drug dealer was caught after officers drafted in a police helicopter to track him as he drove through east London.

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2 w. ago Cop banned from policing for life after passing info to drug dealer boyfriend

Maryam Ilyas was found to have gained access multiple times to police computer systems, and informed her drug dealing boyfriend he featured in a plain clothes operation

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2 w. ago Trainee police officer is banned for life for passing force secrets to her drug dealer boyfriend

Ex-West Yorkshire Police officer Maryam Ilyas, 20, accessed the force's computers to find confidential data to inform her boyfriend about an operation into him.

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