17 h. ago Drug trafficker who scalped woman can only pay back £1 of his criminal gains

Woodford was also charged with the murder of 31-year-old pilot Jason Osu, but slashed his throat midway through the trial and refused to answer questions when giving evidence.

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3 d. ago North Lanarkshire Council to decide whether to allow expansion of industrial estate in Cumbernauld

Provan Contracts, a Motherwell-based construction company, has submitted a planning application proposing five new general industrial buildings on land at Blairlinn Industrial Estate.

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4 d. ago 'Stupid' drug trafficker, 24, who posed with a shotgun and used bullets to spell out his name is jailed

Police in Liverpool linked Joshua Caldwell to the major drugs conspiracy after having previously found images of firearms on a confiscated phone.

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4 d. ago 'Stupid' drug trafficker posed with shotgun and spelt out his initials with bullets

Gang member Joshua Caldwell was found to be linked to a major drugs conspiracy after pictures of firearms were discovered on a seized phone.

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4 d. ago 'Stupid' drug trafficker who posed with shotgun found with cocaine in his underwear

Joshua Caldwell was identified due to his 'distinctive' eyebrows

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5 d. ago The story behind the ramen delivery service that started on an industrial estate and now is beloved by celebrity chefs and critics

Matsudai Ramen has garnered huge success over recent years, but its owner James Chant still can't quite believe it has reached to this point

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5 d. ago ‘Kush destroys them’: the Guinean rehab clinic tackling a drug epidemic

Experts say a crisis is under way in Guinea, fuelled by a growing market run by cross-border trafficking syndicatesAt Guinea’s only private drug rehabilitation clinic, Dr Marie Koumbassa and her 15-person team are so convinced that drug use is a national emergency that they work for no pay.Every week, SAJED-Guinée (Service for Helping Young People in Difficult Situations due to Drugs) receives dozens of distress calls from relatives of addicts who are then taken to the facility in the working-class Conakry neighbourhood of Dabompa. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Cannabis farm raided by cops as drugs worth £1.4 million seized in raids across Scotland

Police found 1100 cannabis plants at a cultivation in an industrial estate.

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1 week ago Authorities say they have charged the leaders of a Mexican organized crime group

Federal authorities said they have indicted the top two leaders of a Mexican drug trafficking organization

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1 week ago French prisons hit by wave of attacks after clampdown on drug traffickers

Terrorism office launches investigation into assaults including gunmen opening fire on entrance to Toulon jailFrance’s national terrorism office has launched an investigation into a wave of apparently coordinated attacks at multiple prisons across the country believed to be linked to a government clampdown on drug traffickers.Gunmen with automatic weapons opened fire on the entrance to Toulon prison in southern France in the early hours of Tuesday, while in recent days cars have been set alight outside four other jails, and in Marseille a residential building housing prison guards was attacked. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Italian police arrest 24 suspected mafiosi over Naples parking protection racket

Suspects charged for drug and weapon offences as well as scheme in which drivers felt compelled to pay feesItalian police have arrested 24 suspected members of the Camorra – the notorious Neapolitan mafia – on charges of drug trafficking, arms possession and running an illegal parking attendant scheme.According to investigators, several of those arrested on Monday were reportedly affiliated with well-known Camorra families operating in the Fuorigrotta and Chiaia districts of Naples. Some were already serving jail sentences. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Huge fire at Glasgow industrial estate as smoke billows into sky

Eight fire appliances raced to the scene shortly after 1pm on Sunday, joined by Police Scotland officers.

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1 week ago Who stole all the cheese? The inside story of the boom in luxury food heists

Who would steal 22 tonnes of posh cheese, or £37,000 of smoked salmon? A rise in fraudulent orders for luxury foodstuffs has rattled the UK industry, leaving artisan producers with unpaid bills and a truckload of questions One day in October 2024, Chris Swales, 54, a smoked-salmon producer with a confident demeanour and a stubbled jaw, stood at the gates of an industrial estate in east London staking out the units. There were teenagers loitering about, knackered cars, XL Bullies; everyone seemed to have more than one phone. It didn’t seem like the sort of place where nine pallets of frozen fish would be delivered, but – he checked the address he had noted down from the courier – this was the place.A couple of months earlier, Swales couldn’t have imagined that he’d be sniffing around Walthamstow on the hunt for £37,000 in missing produce, yet here he was. In August, he’d received an email – subject: “Collaboration” – from a man named Patrick Moulin, who claimed to be the buyer for Ma...

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1 week ago How drug traffickers used foie gras and duck breast to conceal £8m worth of cocaine

Officers said using foie gras and duck breast as a cover was ‘highly unusual’

Economics

2 w. ago Drug traffickers used foie gras and duck breast to smuggle 97kg of cocaine worth £8m across the Channel in the back of a transit van

The group tried to bring in the drugs by entering Newhaven in East Sussex from Dieppe in northern France in November 2019.

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2 w. ago Drug trafficker jailed for smuggling £22.8m cocaine in dry ice for 'London hospital'

Bart Verschueren, 40, was sentenced on Thursday at Canterbury Crown Court

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2 w. ago Battery plant EXPLODES for second time in just one year as terrified residents flee debris raining down on their newbuild estate next door

The SFRS sent six fire engines and about 40 firefighters to the scene in West Byrehill Industrial Estate in North Ayrshire when the alarm was raised at 12.42pm yesterday.

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2 w. ago Battery plant EXPLODES for second time exactly one year on as terrified residents 'hit by batteries' 

The SFRS sent six fire engines and about 40 firefighters to the scene in West Byrehill Industrial Estate in North Ayrshire when the alarm was raised at 12.42pm yesterday.

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2 w. ago Ayrshire homes evacuated after huge explosion left emergency services 'running for cover'

Emergency services rushed to the inferno at West Byrehill Industrial Estate, Kilwinning, in Ayrshire this afternoon.

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2 w. ago Ayrshire fire had emergency services 'running for cover' as batteries exploded

Locals have reported of huge explosions coming from the blaze at an industrial estate in Kilwinning.

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