2 h. ago Villagers fear Kate Humble's festival in Wales could be overrun by drug dealers

The festival has been hosted in the village since its inception in 2010 but this year's festivities are planned to be moved to Kate Humble's farm in Penallt

Economics

5 h. ago 'Gloating' criminals put their faces and name of their drug line on birthday cake

The gang recruited vulnerable children to work as street drug dealers

Events

7 h. ago He made £800,000 from dealing drugs but only has to pay back £200

Rhydian Charles, 27, was a member of the group led by Tufial Akthar, 41, from which drugs worth up to £219,000 was seized by police.

Economics

8 h. ago Police found vulnerable children under a shelter. It led them to these men

The gang targeted, recruited and exploited vulnerable children - some of whom were living in care - to use them as street drug dealers

Events

9 h. ago Last decade was Earth's hottest ever as CO2 levels reach an 800,000

Last year was the hottest year on record, the top 10 hottest years were all in the past decade and planet-heating carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is at its highest levels in the last 800,000 years, a report Wednesday said

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22 h. ago More than 150 ‘unprecedented’ climate disasters struck world in 2024, says UN

Floods, heatwaves and supercharged hurricanes occurred in hottest climate human society has ever experiencedThe devastating impacts of the climate crisis reached new heights in 2024, with scores of unprecedented heatwaves, floods and storms across the globe, according to the UN’s World Meteorological Organization.The WMO’s report on 2024, the hottest year on record, sets out a trail of destruction from extreme weather that took lives, demolished buildings and ravaged vital crops. More than 800,000 people were displaced and made homeless, the highest yearly number since records began in 2008. Continue reading...

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29 h. ago Harvard is offering free tuition for families that make less than $200K

Harvard University has announced that students whose families make less than $200,000 won't pay tuition

Politics

60 h. ago AstraZeneca pays up to $1bn for biotech firm ‘that could transform cell therapy’

UK pharma group acquires Belgium’s EsoBiotec as it announces EU has approved Imfinzi lung cancer drugBusiness live – latest updatesAstraZeneca has struck a $1bn (£773m) deal to buy a Belgian biotech company that specialises in cancer immunotherapies, the latest in a string of acquisitions that also yielded positive results for a late-stage rare disease drug on Monday.EsoBiotec, a small privately held firm founded four years ago in Mont-Saint-Guibert, develops in-vivo cell therapies that empower the immune system to attack cancers, and could offer many more patients access to cell therapy treatments provided in minutes rather than weeks. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Man caught with enough fentanyl to wipe out a small city was previously LET OFF by Dem governor

Percy Levy, 54, was arrested Thursday during a traffic stop in Everett following a 16-month investigation by the Snohomish Regional Drug Task Force.

Events

5 d. ago Stacey Dooley's dark past from shoplifting stint to drug dealer ex

Documentary-maker Stacey Dooley has become a household name on our screens, but there's a lot more to the presenter than what we see on screen including her past love life and rebellious teenage years

Economics

5 d. ago Former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte appears by video link in Hague accused of crimes against humanity – live

Duterte faces charges over his years-long campaign against drug users and dealers that rights groups say killed tens of thousandsThe people who bought ex-president Duterte to justicePhilippine ex-president Rodrigo Duterte is appearing by video link before judges at the international criminal court.Duterte would follow the proceedings through a video link, a court spokesperson said.To some Duterte’s arrest this week came as a sudden shock. But for years many brave Filipinos, from priests, politicians, pathologists, to relatives of the victims and journalists, have worked tirelessly, in and out of the spotlight, to expose the horrors of the deadly campaign and collect enough evidence to hold Duterte to account. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Dope Thief review – this crime caper’s hilarious moments are like Brooklyn Nine

Apple TV+’s mesmerising, funny tale of low-level criminals stealing drugs while posing as DEA agents is fast, furious – and stars Brian Tyree Henry on heartbreakingly wonderful formContrary to popular belief, a man’s reach should ideally not exceed his grasp. All hell tends to break loose if it does. Never more so, it turns out, than if a pair of low-level criminals find a semi-lucrative groove posing as DEA agents to fake-bust other small-time drug dealers and relieve them of their cash without real police ever getting involved.Such is the hustle of Ray Driscoll (Atlanta’s Brian Tyree Henry) and Manny Carvalho (Narcos’ Wagner Moura): best friends since they met as young men in prison, addicts at different stages of recovery, and now partners in crime moving through the minor crack dens of Philadelphia. The opening set piece is so funny (“Did you just pause the game?” Ray asks incredulously as the armed pair burst into a dealer’s house screaming at the computer-playing addicts to ge...

Events

1 week ago Revealed: British 'drug dealer', 32, facing execution by firing squad in Bali after 'being caught with kilo of MDMA' is an electrician from Cumbria

Thomas Parker looked bewildered as he was paraded in front of the world's media while wearing an orange jumpsuit following his arrest.

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1 week ago Revealed: British 'drug dealer', 32, facing execution by firing squad in Bali after 'being caught with kilo of MDMA' is an electrician from Cumbria 

Thomas Parker looked bewildered as he was paraded in front of the world's media while wearing an orange jumpsuit following his arrest.

Events

1 week ago Drug dealer brother of Scots 'wellness guru' boasted about abusing woman on diverted Ryanair flight

Scott Davis and his brother Alistair have posted online about the airline chaos which saw passengers stranded for hours.

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1 week ago "Class B drugs?" Drug dealing dad feigns shock as cops investigating cannabis supply racket raid his home

Ross McGinn ran the company Elev8 with Andrew Roberts, splicing electricity from the national grid to power a network of drug farms

Events

1 week ago Drug dealers used code words but they were read in court as evidence of drug dealing

Kyle Rudge, 34, and Chris Lord, 31, were found with phones containing tick lists showing people who owned money for drugs

Events

1 week ago National Lottery hunting for joint winners of £3.8 million jackpot

National Lottery now hunting for the winners to unite them with their combined £3,800,000 jackpot prize

Economics

1 week ago British 'drug dealer' faces execution by firing squad in Bali: Thirty

Video shared by the authorities showed the 32-year-old dressed in an orange prison outfit, fidgeting with his head bowed as he was hauled in front of media.

Economics

1 week ago Locals go to war over fears retired businessman's plan to build new snug at his  £800,000 home in village with links to Shakespeare will block historic footpath 

EXCLUSIVE: The route just a stone's throw from the childhood home of Shakespeare's mother is allegedly under threat - from the chairman of the local parish council.

Economics