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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2 w. ago The criminals who smuggled drugs and phones into notorious Welsh prison

People inside and outside the jail have been involved in conspiracies to convey contraband into the prison

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3 w. ago ROBERT JENRICK: Why crooks could soon be toasting Keir Starmer in champagne once again

It feels like we're living through a crime wave right now. In our cities, there is a phone theft epidemic. And in rural areas, county lines drug gangs have gained footholds, bringing violence to sleepy villages.

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3 w. ago Hatton Garden cocaine heist: Two criminals who attempted to smuggle £190million worth of drugs into UK and laundered profits through London's jewellery district are jailed

Two criminals involved in a Hatton Garden money laundering scheme have been jailed after attempting to smuggle £190million worth of drugs into the UK.

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3 w. 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

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3 w. ago Travel influencer, 28, plunged 65ft to her death when her heel slipped while 'scrambling' with pals in Snowdonia

Maria Eftimova, 28, was going up the notorious Tryfan mountain at the Welsh national park when the accident happened.

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4 w. ago It’s the age of regret: gen Z grew up glued to their screens, and missed the joy of being human | Gaby Hinsliff

A generation who came of age online now feel deprived of real connections. The upside is they are doing something about itIt’s the love-hate relationship that defined a generation. We think we know all about teenagers and the phones to which they’re so umbilically tied: sleeping with them under the pillow, panicking at the prospect of ever being denied wifi, so glued to the screen that they’re oblivious to the world unfolding around them. Yet the first generation to have never really known a life without social media – the drug that primarily keeps them coming back to their phones for more – is now grown up enough to reflect on what it may have done to them, and the answers are almost enough to break your heart.Two-thirds of 16- to 24-year-olds think social media does more harm than good and three-quarters want tougher regulation to protect younger people from it, according to polling for the New Britain Project, a thinktank founded by a former teacher, Anna McShane. Half think they...

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