17 h. ago Inside the lavish lives of the glam drug smuggling pals caught with £160,000 worth of cannabis in their luggage

Pals Sophie Bannister and Levi-April Whalley from Blackburn, were snared with 35kg of the Class B drug in their luggage as they returned from a trip to New York in December 2023.

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40 h. ago Drug smuggling pals found with 35kg of cannabis in their luggage at UK airport

Sophie Bannister and Levi-April Whalley, both 30 were caught with more than £160,000 worth of cannabis in their suitcases as they landed back on UK soil from a 'shopping' trip to New York.

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54 h. ago UK's most DANGEROUS gangsters revealed: Britain's FBI reveals which criminals pose the biggest threat to our security as they wield control over money laundering, drug smuggling and human trafficking

EXCLUSIVE: The NCA revealed that mobsters from the country pose the biggest foreign organised crime threat to the UK, a finding that's taken even experts by surprise.

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60 h. ago Britain's most dangerous gangsters: Why Chinese criminals now pose biggest threat to UK security as they wield control over money laundering, drug smuggling and human trafficking

EXCLUSIVE: The NCA revealed that mobsters from the country pose the biggest foreign organised crime threat to the UK, a finding that's taken even experts by surprise.

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6 d. ago Scots gangster jailed over "key role" in South American cartel drug smuggling ring

Stephen Gough was caught after encrypted calls on Encrochat phone platform tied him into drug dealing conversations with jailed co-accused "Mr Nice" Tony Bennett.

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7 d. ago China looks south as it seeks to reduce reliance on a capricious United States

China wants to protect against the volatility of Trump’s tariffs, and now has more than a dozen free trade agreements with global south countriesChinese vice-premier Ding Xuexiang has pledged to give stronger policy support to the Chinese economy as he delivered the keynote speech at a forum focused on bolstering the country’s role in Asia and ties with the global south.With the tariffs on Chinese goods mounting, China is trying to find a foundation for growth that does not rely on an increasingly capricious United States. At the Boao Forum for Asia, a conference in south China’s Hainan province, Chinese officials and academics stressed the need for partnerships with global south countries. Despite its rapid economic growth in the past three decades, China still identifies as being part of this group. Continue reading...

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1 week ago 'Raging' Scots gangster Mark Richardson 'battles bid to overthrow him' behind bars

Richardson is said to be in solitary confinement as a rival targets associates on the outside.

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1 week ago Crooked prison worker and mum plotted to put 'snitch' drug smuggler lag 'in body bag'

Jada Wilson, 25, an employee at HMP Featherstone used her security system to confirm to her mother Ezerine Manning the whereabouts of a prisoner that an associate wanted to kill

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1 week ago Are these Britain's worst teachers? From smuggling drugs into prisons to joking about sex with mums to keeping slaves... how some of the most trusted in society are being banned from the classroom  

Drug smuggling, outrageously inflated CVs and sexual misconduct towards parents are just a few of the crimes seen in British schools and carried out by teachers in recent years.

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2 w. ago 'Mr Big' gangster behind Edinburgh gun and fire attacks is 'Dubai

The capital has been rocked by a series of attacks in recent weeks believed to be linked to a stolen stash of cocaine.

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2 w. ago Foreign minister ‘strongly condemns’ China’s executions of four Canadians

Mélanie Joly says Ottawa would ask for leniency for other Canadians facing the same fateNever miss global breaking news. Download our free app to keep up with key stories in real time.Canada has strongly condemned the execution of four of its citizens who were put to death in China on drug-smuggling charges, amid lingering diplomatic tensions between the two countries.The minister of foreign affairs, Mélanie Joly, said on Wednesday that all four were dual citizens and were executed earlier this year. She added that Ottawa would ask for leniency for other Canadians facing the same fate. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago 'Big Sh*gger' smuggled cigs and drugs into UK hidden inside shipment of pasta

Drug smuggler Paul Wilson has been jailed alongside his brother for their part in a network that shipped drugs and cigs into the UK hidden in shipments of pasta

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2 w. ago New $70 million contract to help continue construction of Trump’s border wall is handed out

Seven-mile stretch of border wall is expected to be extended in Hidalgo County, Texas, to curb drug smuggling and illegal crossings

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2 w. ago Four Brit 'drug smugglers' are paraded by Thai cops and face years in prison after they were 'caught trying to fly £1.7million of cannabis out of paradise island'

Four British tourists have been paraded by Thai police after being arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle £1.7million of cannabis out of an airport in Thailand.

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3 w. ago Royal Navy chases down drug smugglers and finds huge haul of heroin and methamphetamine

HMS Lancaster launched its Wildcat helicopter after spotting suspicious activity from two boats side-by-side

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3 w. ago Mexican drug trafficker's callous response on why he smuggles killer fentanyl into America as he load it into his car's petrol tank and drives it through a legal border crossing

A cartel operative, referred to by the pseudonym Jay, showed BBC 's Quentin Sommerville how he and his associates transport fentanyl across the southern border.

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3 w. ago Gangster sparks notorious Lyons crime feud over TikTok claims rival "trashed grave"

The allegations led to a furious response with Chalmers being told to keep the "Lyons name out his mouth."

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3 w. ago Drug smugglers posed as fishermen in bid to sneak £100million of cocaine into Britain

The four offenders were caught in the act on September 13 last year while one of them lay asleep on a deckchair.

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3 w. ago Gangster gunned down behind pub taunts rival on TikTok in sick jabs over dead brother

Ryan Chalmers has been taunting the gangland rival who lives in Dubai after a row about stolen money.

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3 w. ago Crime boss dubbed 'Pablo Escobar' caged alongside Scots lieutenant continued running empire from jail

Christopher Welsh Junior ran an organised crime group which supplied cocaine and heroin worth tens of millions of pounds to Scottish gangster John Reid.

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