Police bust ‘£1m county lines drugs ring after dealers dressed up as care home staff’

Police bust ‘£1million county lines drugs ring after dealers dressed up as care home staff and key workers to trick lockdown patrols while delivering cocaine to middle-class customers’ Couriers ‘sent drugs to 2,000 clients across Birmingham and Worcestershire’ West Midlands Regional Organised Crime Unit (WMROCU) shut down hotline A gun was recovered as part of … Read more

Motor dealers to offer and average of 7% off new cars this month to recoup lockdown 2 losses

Car dealers in England are set to offer big discounts on popular mainstream models this month as they reopen their doors from today following the second national lockdown. With showrooms forced to revert to online sales and click-and-collect services over the last month, UK car registrations look on course to only just break 1.5 million … Read more

Teenage drug dealers told schoolgirl ‘you are gonna end up f*****d up’ after giving her ecstasy

The two teenagers who gave a 15-year-old schoolgirl a fatal ecstasy ‘bomb’ told her ‘you are gonna end up f*****d up’ before she collapsed and died from the lethal dose, a court has heard. One of the teenagers, Mitchell Southern, 19, bought MDMA crystals from dealer Connor Kirkwood, 18, before preparing bombs of the drugs … Read more

Drug dealers ‘work in care homes to groom children’: Police probe ‘four staff at C4C residence’

County lines gangs are recruiting children in care homes as drug runners as the youngsters are ‘easy targets for exploitation’, an investigation has found. Whistleblowers have reported that staff at a care home in Lancashire have been probed by police over allegations of ‘modern slavery and trafficking offences.’ It is understood up to four staff … Read more

Ant Anstead jokes he can’t keep his job or wives as he leaves Wheeler dealers after marriage split

Ant Anstead jokes he can’t keep his job or his wives as he leaves Wheeler dealers after marriage split By Rachel Mcgrath For Dailymail.com Published: 01:19 GMT, 4 November 2020 | Updated: 01:26 GMT, 4 November 2020 He announced on Monday that he’s leaving his UK show Wheeler Dealers and on Tuesday, his wife of … Read more

Ant Anstead announces he’s leaving Wheeler Dealers and plans to stay in California

Christina Anstead has filed for divorce from husband Ant Anstead after less than two years of marriage. Just weeks after announcing the separation, the 37-year-old Flip or Flop star filed divorce papers in an Orange County court on Tuesday, TMZ reports.  The couple started dating in October of 2017, and they exchanged vows at the … Read more

Burglar killed man, 88, in house raid then used their phone to call drug dealers, court hears

Dennis Kellond, 88, pictured was killed in his home in Godstone, Surrey, in April 25 this year, a court heard A callous thief who killed a great-grandfather in a bungled burglary left the pensioner in a pool of his own blood before using his phone to call drug dealers, a court heard.  Dennis Kellond was … Read more

Drug dealers ‘slip business cards under doors’ in student accommodation

Drug dealers slip business cards under doors to peddle their wares to students in northeastern university cities where where four young people suffered drug-related fatalities at the weekend. Cards showing how to request banned substances through Instagram were handed out around accommodation for undergraduates at Newcastle University. Furthermore, Whatsapp ‘group chats’ have introduced like-minded strangers … Read more

Drug dealers are hit by covid as lockdown disrupts their supply chains, survey says

Drug dealers are hit by covid as lockdown disrupts their supply chains with three in ten users claiming prices have increased, survey says Global Drug Survey found access to illegal drugs in UK decreased in lockdown The study of 1,173 Britons found 29 per cent said drugs were more expensive 49 per cent of cannabis … Read more

ALEX BRUMMER: Pandering to drug dealers and oligarchs

Bombshell revelations that a corrupt, money-laundering culture lies at the core of Britain’s biggest bank HSBC are a devastating reminder that the nation’s lenders have learnt nothing since the financial crisis of 2008 to 2009. Back then, the banks took us to the financial abyss by selling bad debt in vast quantities around the world, … Read more