21 h. ago Gangster gran known as 'Queen Bee' lived life of luxury running family crime empire

She and fellow gang members have been jailed for a total of more than 100 years

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23 h. ago 'Gangster granny' draped in Gucci and known as 'Queen Bee' turns out to be head of family crime gang

Deborah Mason was known as "Queen Bee"

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23 h. ago The 'gangster granny' with the Gucci cat collar who was running a family crime gang

Deborah Mason was known as "Queen Bee"

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29 h. ago ‘Gangster granny’ who oversaw £80m drugs operation foiled by police

A "gangster granny" crime gang boss has been sentenced for dealing drugs with a street value of £80 million across the UK.

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37 h. ago The 22 best things to do with kids this summer in Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion

We're within touching distance of the school summer holidays, so it's time to plan for a summer of fun with your family where thousands of us head to each year - west Wales

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42 h. ago ‘Gangster granny’ jailed for leading family gang dealing drugs worth £80m

Deborah Mason, 65, who had moniker ‘Queen Bee’, and seven members of her network sentenced to total of 106.5 yearsA family-run organised crime group, orchestrated by a 65-year-old described by police as a “gangster granny”, has been sentenced for dealing drugs with a street value of £80m across the UK.Deborah Mason, who had the moniker “Queen Bee”, and seven other members of the gang, were sentenced at Woolwich crown court in London on Friday for their involvement in supplying nearly a tonne of cocaine over seven months. Continue reading...

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44 h. ago Crime gang headed by ‘gangster granny’ jailed for dealing drugs worth £80m

Deborah Mason and seven other members of the gang were sentenced to a total of 106 and a half years at Woolwich Crown Court on Friday.

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44 h. ago Gangster granny who used family to run £80m drug empire and splashed out on designer accessories for her cat is jailed for 20 years

Deborah Mason, 65, revelled in her status as a cocaine kingpin, instructing her own family, whom she recruited as drug runners, to call her 'Gangster Debbs' and 'Queen Bee'.

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3 d. ago Empty seed packets. Tools that snap in half: As it hits 'financial difficulty', how gardening queen bee Sarah Raven's £27m empire is wilting fast

The news is likely to have horticulturalists up and down the country reaching not for the secateurs but for the smelling salts.

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6 d. ago Coronation Street fans spot 'new head' as Platt family member recast after 9 years

ITV soap character Lily Platt made their first appearance on-screen with a new face

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6 d. ago How notorious crime gang smuggled £125million of heroin into Britain before mob boss tortured his own uncle to death... and the EncroChats that finally bought them down

Tahir Syed, 42, brought in 200 kilos of drugs at a time using lorries coming from the Netherlands to a warehouse he rented in Bradford.

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8 d. ago 'Incredible' update as mum fighting for life in Tenerife after horror hotel fall

Mum Emma Hickey, 42, is critically ill in hospital after falling head-first down the stairs while on a family holiday in Tenerife - but her family say she is 'fighting strong'

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1 week ago Glasgow gang boss' new face revealed in first snaps in years as crime kingpin parties in Dubai

Dubai-based kingpin Steven Lyons is believed to have spent thousands of pounds on cosmetic surgery to change his appearance, as he was pictured for the first time in a decade

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1 week ago 'Vital cogs' in UK crime gang caught by police at Welsh builders merchants

The criminals who police intercepted had travelled 250 miles from Lancashire as part of a 'large-scale and well-organised criminal enterprise'

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2 w. ago Two more arrests over 'attempted murder' and 'firebombing' in Edinburgh

Arrests increase to 52 as police investigate suspected gang feud.

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2 w. ago Liverpool players join mourners in Portugal for Diogo Jota’s funeral

Virgil van Dijk and Andy Robertson among mournersPortugal forward Jota and his brother died in car crashLiverpool players and staff have joined family and friends in Gondomar to pay their final respects to Diogo Jota and his brother André Silva. The funerals are taking place in the brothers’ hometown in Portugal where they were revered with mourners travelling from over the globe to say goodbye.Jota’s widow, Rute Cardoso, who the footballer had been married to for 11 days before his death, was greeted by family on Saturday morning before the event. The Liverpool head coach, Arne Slot, the captain, Virgil van Dijk, the defender Andrew Robertson, the midfielder Alexis Mac Allister, former teammates Jordan Henderson and James Milner, and Manchester City’s Rúben Dias are all in Portugal for the service. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Moment police arrest 'Albanian organised crime gang members' after spate of million

Cheshire Police detectives swooped on three addresses in Walsall, Sutton Coldfield and Birmingham and cuffed three Albanian men aged 27, 28 and 30 and a British woman aged 33.

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2 w. ago Greater Manchester Police investigating 1,000 grooming gang suspects, watchdog says

Andy Burnham said ‘never again will any child here be labelled or dismissed’ after a report found significant improvements in the force’s response to grooming gangs

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2 w. ago Welsh drug gang boss fled to Spain and South America as the net closed

Paul Harris, 28, ran an organised crime gang based in southeast Wales which was involved in the wholesale supply of cocaine and ketamine

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2 w. ago Horrifying moment road rage killer shoots toddler in the head after family car honks at him to move out of their way

This is the horrifying moment a driver shot a 23-month-old girl in the head in a road rage attack.

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