17 h. ago Pensioner caught smuggling £640,000 worth of cocaine into UK in mobility scooter

Ronald Lord, 71, was stopped at Gatwick Airport in the UK after flying in from Barbados

Economics

23 h. ago Pensioner who tried to smuggle £600,000 worth of cocaine into the UK by hiding it in his mobility scooter is jailed

Ronald Lord, 71, was handed a six-year prison sentence after being found with eight kilograms of the class A drug in the back seat panel of his scooter when he was stopped at Gatwick Airport.

Economics

30 h. ago Pensioner, 71, smuggled cocaine worth £640,000 into UK hidden in mobility scooter

Ronald Lord was caught at the airport

Economics

30 h. ago Pensioner who smuggled £640,000 worth of cocaine in mobility scooter jailed

Ronald Lord, from Montreal in Canada, was stopped at Gatwick Airport where border force staff found eight kilograms of the drug hidden in his scooter.

Economics

62 h. ago 'Nothin' to do with me!' Drug dealer's astonishing reaction after police discover £50,000 worth of cocaine in a car he's stolen

This is the moment police officers dramatically surround a stolen car and recover £50,000 of cocaine at a service station in Feering, Essex.

Economics

5 d. ago Mobile phone ‘hidden in Commons’ as part of prank to play ‘sex noises’ during PMQs

A phone was reportedly planted near the front bench in what is being investigated as a “major breach” of parliamentary security

Politics

1 week ago Eat Pray Love author Elizabeth Gilbert on leaving her marriage for a dying friend: ‘She said, Let’s just live balls to the wall until I die!’

One was a happily married and internationally famous writer, the other a cool, funny hairdresser and ex-drug addict. Then a shock diagnosis pitched them into an intense love affair ...Sometime in the summer of 2017 I wrote in my journal, “Jesus fucking Christ, please save me.” I was trapped in hell, and I could see no way out. Our beautiful, sunny, two-bedroom penthouse apartment in the East Village – which I had rented for Rayya to make her happy in the last months of her life – had become a dungeon of misery, danger, degradation, drugs. Rayya kept the shades drawn at all hours of the day, not only because the light hurt her eyes but also because she had become intensely paranoid that she was being watched by the police, and that they were coming for her.And, to be honest, the police might very well have come for her (for both of us, actually), because our apartment now contained thousands and thousands of dollars’ worth of cocaine – some of which Rayya was cooking down and shootin...

Events

1 week ago Home Office minister praises joint EU operation to smash drug smuggler gangs

Operation White Sea has led to the seizure of cocaine worth £66 million from reaching the UK and EU.

Politics

2 w. ago Gran's chilling final wish as she waits to be executed by firing squad in Bali

Another British woman has been on death row in Bali for 12 years after being caught trying to smuggle 1.6million worth of cocaine into Indonesia

Sport

2 w. ago Brit gran's horrifying last wish after 12 years on death row as she awaits firing squad

Lindsay Sandiford, a grandmother from the UK, has been on death row in Bali for 12 years after she was caught trying to smuggle 2 million worth of cocaine into Indonesia

Events

2 w. ago Woman arrested for smuggling cocaine and ecstasy into Bali using sex toy and underwear

Woman accused of smuggling $72,000-worth of cocaine and ecstasy pills

Events

3 w. ago Desperate leaked texts from ex mob boss John Gilligan reveal what his life is like behind bars in Spain

John Gilligan, 73, from Dublin, was imprisoned in Spai n in Alicante after he was discovered running ' Breaking Bad'-style pink cocaine drug lab thought to have produced €8 million worth of narcotics.

Politics

3 w. ago Woman, 23, who tried to smuggle £800,000 worth of crack cocaine into the UK in a wheel of cheese is jailed

US national Jamie Choi, 23, was stopped by Border Force officers at Heathrow on May 25 after arriving on a flight from Brazil.

Economics