3 d. ago Drug dealer who benefited by £125,000 ordered to pay back just £42,000

Christopher Heaney, 48, was a member of an organised crime gang which was brought down by the arrest of Steven Creasey, 67, from Cardiff, who was stopped by police in Scotland

Economics

4 d. ago Prescription pill taken by 9million is linked to devastating motor neurone disease, researchers find

A study involving more than 6,000 people has revealed that four types of commonly prescribed drugs could raise the risk of deadly motor neurone disease.

Science

4 d. ago Senior Met police officer who claimed £120,000 salary for nearly five years despite refusing to take drugs test is finally sacked

Commander Julian Bennett was dismissed after a disciplinary panel found his refusal to provide a urine sample in July 2020 amounted to gross misconduct.

Events

5 d. ago Ozempic raises risk of 'silent cancer' that is surging in young people, study finds

The findings come as part of the world's largest study of weight-loss drug users, which looked at 86,000 obese or overweight patients tracked for up to ten years.

Events

6 d. ago Brit, 79, 'caught with 5kg of meth' in Chile is bowls fan from sleepy Dorset village

William ‘Billy Boy' Eastment faces dying behind prison bars if found guilty after the 79-year-old was arrested at Santiago Airport with a suitcase allegedly containing £200,000 worth of the class A drug

Events

6 d. ago Brit, 79, 'caught with 5kg of meth' in Chile is bowls fan from sleepy Somerset village

William ‘Billy Boy' Eastment faces dying behind prison bars if found guilty after the 79-year-old was arrested at Santiago Airport with a suitcase allegedly containing £200,000 worth of the class A drug

Events

6 d. ago Cancer patients unable to get key drug in 'worst shortage ever'

The drug is used by more than 60,000 people with cancer, cystic fibrosis and other chronic conditions

Science

1 week ago Men who tried to smuggle £592,000 of drugs on transatlantic flight jailed

Jamaal Darbasie, 27, and George Manton, 19, both from Harlow in Essex, were stopped at Glasgow Airport in March 2024.

Events

1 week ago Brit is arrested with a suitcase 'stuffed with £100,000 of cannabis' travelling from Bangkok to UK

A British man has been busted trying to smuggle a suitcase stuffed with cannabis from Bangkok to Newcastle as cops crack down on a fast-developing drug route from the Thai capital.

Economics

1 week ago Hundreds of women ready to sue over contraceptive jab linked to brain tumours

Every month about 10,000 prescriptions are handed out in England for the drug. But a study has shown those who used it for more than a year were 5 times more likely to develop a brain tumour.

Politics

1 week ago Drug mule mum issues stark warning to Bella May Culley as she awaits trial

Levi-April Whalley says she has endured 'months of torture' after she was caught smuggling drugs worth £160,000 into the UK with friend Sophie Bannister

Events

2 w. ago Former Arsenal striker thought he was ‘importing gold not cannabis’ in smuggling plot

The striker was arrested after the NCA seized an estimated £600,000 of the class B drug

Events

3 w. ago ‘Men run away from vulnerability’: The Weeknd on blinding success, panic attacks and why The Idol was ‘half

Abel Tesfaye is arguably the world’s biggest pop star – so why is he thinking of wrapping up the Weeknd? As he releases soul-baring film Hurry Up Tomorrow, he charts his path through drugs, heartbreak and abandonmentWalking out to perform in front of 80,000 people and finding that your voice has gone: it’s the type of stress dream you have the night before a big work presentation. But for Abel Tesfaye, AKA the Weeknd, it happened for real at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium in 2022. “I ran backstage to find my vocal coach: I can’t sing, it’s not coming out,” he says. “And what I found out later on is that I was having a panic attack. It wasn’t a physical injury. It was more up here” – he gestures to his head – “than it was here” – his throat.The concert, which had to be called off and rescheduled, was the final night of a US stadium tour happening while Tesfaye was also wrapping up his painfully gestated – and eventually widely lampooned – TV series The Idol, which he starred in, co-wrote ...

Events

3 w. ago Teenage drug dealer found with £12,000 worth of amphetamines to pay back £8,000

Joseph Tucker, 19, was raided by police at his home and was also found in possession of 27g of cannabis, £2,000 in cash and a fake Rolex watch

Economics

3 w. ago US overdose deaths fell 27% last year but remain above prepandemic levels

There were 30,000 fewer U.S. drug overdose deaths in 2024 than the year before — the largest one-year decline ever recorded

Events

3 w. ago Plumber caught on M74 moving £50,000 drugs cash from Glasgow to England

Farooq Mazhar headed to Scotland from his home in Bolton before returning south.

Economics

3 w. ago Revealed: 'Bonnie and Clyde' TikTok boasts of Brit student who vanished in Thailand...before ending up in court 4,000 miles away on drugs charges

In a series of social media posts shortly before her arrest, Bella May Culley, 18, had boasted about her 'Bonnie and Clyde' lifestyle, while sharing videos flaunting her money and 'smoking cannabis'.

Events

3 w. ago Ketamine addict who spent £300,000 on drug 'has to pee every minute' and 'wakes up soaked'

Oliver Westall says he was first introduced to the drug, which made him feel 'warm and numb inside', as a child - but his addiction quickly spiralled out of control

Economics

3 w. ago Facing jail, law student who was caught with £150,000 worth of cannabis at airport

A university law student is facing a lengthy jail sentence after she was caught attempting to smuggle £150,000 of drugs through Edinburgh Airport.

Society