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Grandad lorry driver jailed over 'industrial scale' £1m drug factory in Motherwell

Stanley Feerick was arrested while driving a lorry containing heroin worth £300,000. He trafficked the drugs across the UK and has now been locked away after being caught.

Glasgow Live

Heroin trafficker grandad's gang holidayed in Las Vegas while claiming benefits

The gang headed to Sin City while claiming government support

Liverpool Echo

Grandad lorry driver caged over 'industrial scale' £1m drug factory in Scotland

Stanley Feerick was the final person to be sentenced for his role in the operation, after being arrested while driving a lorry containing heroin worth £300,000.

Daily Record

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Grandad puffed out cheeks and said 'wow' as he's jailed over £1m drug gang

Pensioner was part of £1million amphetamine lab gang who carried out dodgy dealings in Costco car park

Liverpool Echo

Family holiday ruined after heroin user broke into home and stole heirlooms

John Wilson targeted the home when they went away

Nottingham Post

Man who lost job during pandemic 'enlisted' to work for London county lines drugs gang

Builder Adrian Simjak was used by a London criminal gang to deal heroin and crack cocaine to addicts on the streets of Swansea

Wales Online

Conor McGregor responds to cocaine accusation from UFC rival with “heroin addict” jibe

UFC welterweight Matt Brown took aim at McGregor in a recent interview, much to the Irishman's annoyance; inducing a series of aggressive tweets

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Davina McCall fears for daughters as she suggests taking pill led to her heroin addiction

The much-loved TV presenter is at the forefront of a women’s health revolution, and has shared her fears about the contraceptive pill after doing extensive research on it for her new documentary

Daily Mirror

EncroChat ‘Carbonzero’, racist thug and woman beater among criminals jailed this week

Here are the faces of six criminals jailed this week

Liverpool Echo

Sister of UK's first flesh-eating zombie drug victim issues warning over 'evil killer'

Karl Warburton has become the first person to die of xylazine in the UK - and his sister Diane has spoken about her fears that the killer drug could cause even more deaths around the UK

Daily Mirror

Alleged heroin kingpin brought back from Turkey to face possible life sentence

The alleged mastermind of the largest heroin importations in recent history is facing life behind bars, Australian Federal Police say

The New Daily

AFP arrest man at Sydney airport allegedly behind one of Australia's biggest ever heroin importations

Federal police work with Turkish authorities to arrest Guy Habkouk, who they allege was behind the shipment of almost 350 kilograms of heroin in December 2020.

ABC News

EncroChat dealer ‘Carbonzero’ used car hire company as front to sell heroin and cocaine

The 43-year-old was found guilty at Liverpool Crown Court

Liverpool Echo

Tranq: first UK death from the flesh-rotting 'zombie drug' xylazine

The flesh-rotting “zombie drug” xylazine has been wreaking havoc in the US. Now it’s in the UK. A toxicology report showed that a middle-aged man from Solihull, England, died from the effects of xylazine, heroin, fentanyl and cocaine.

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Daily Record

Scots dad who was reunited with daughter after beating heroin addiction bids to help others

Barry began using heroin and crack cocaine as he experienced homelessness for six years, in and out of hostels in the city and receiving support from Glasgow City Mission.

Daily Mirror

Joe Swash's sister reveals her new 'normal' career 17 years on from EastEnders exit

Shana Swash may be happy with her new career but Joe Swash's little sister has teased a return to EastEnders, almost two decades on Demi Miller leaving the BBC soap following her teen pregnancy and heroin storyline

Wales Online

Warning flesh-eating zombie drug could be widespread in UK after first death

It has contributed to an epidemic of drug deaths in the US

Tribune News Service

Hillary Clinton talks drug addiction, overdose rescue kits in Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS — Robert Banghart’s life was saved by naloxone twice in one evening when he overdosed from heroin.

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The Independent UK

‘Zombie drug’ could be widespread in UK, experts warn

Xylazine is a powerful sedative which has swept across the United States.

Daily Mirror

'I used to own a restaurant, now I'm a homeless addict - it could happen to anyone'

Dad-of-four Jamie is a shadow of his former self and ten years after running his thriving business the drugs addict pounds the streets in search of his next heroin fix

Wales Online

'My son died 10 years ago from a heroin addiction - I'm still paying off his debts'

Annette Kinahan recalls when gangsters threatened her with a gun and a hammer over her son's debts

Daily Mirror

'My son died from heroin addiction and I'm still paying his drug debts TEN years on'

John Kinehane, from Tallaght in Dublin, was found dead in the toilet of a pub in Dublin in 2013 and his mother is still paying off his drugs debts a decade on from the tragedy

Dublin Live

'I’m still paying off my son’s heroin debt - ten years after he died'

The mum has been threatened with a hammer and a gun by debt collectors to pay her son’s drug debts

Irish Mirror

Dublin mum tells RTE's Gaelic in the Joy she's still paying dead son's drug debts 10 years on

Annette Kinehane lost her son to heroin addiction ten years ago

Leeds Live

Leeds ex-restaurant owner now homeless heroin addict warns 'it could happen to anyone'

Jamie, haunted by his demons, admits he 'never managed to get his life back on track' after he lost everything

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