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Crufts champion faces growing backlash as 15,000 sign petition calling for title to be stripped

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The Independent UK

Crufts winner’s animal cruelty conviction prompts complaints to Channel 4

Animal charities call for ‘extreme’ breeds to no longer be eligible for prizes and full vetting of competitors

The Guardian - UK

Calls for Crufts winner to have award removed after animal cruelty conviction revealed

Lee Cox was announced the winner of the international dog show on Sunday

The Independent UK

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Handler of Crufts 2026 winner has previous conviction for animal cruelty

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The Independent UK

Crufts champion dog handler has previous animal cruelty conviction

Exclusive: Lee Cox, who stole the show with Clumber spaniel Bruin on Sunday, was previously found guilty on animal cruelty charges

The Independent UK

Claudia Winkleman gets hit in the face by Crufts winner in awkward live TV mishap

Claudia Winkleman was accidentally hit in the face by Crufts 2026 winner, Lee Cox after his dog - four-year-old Clumber Spaniel, Bruin - won Best in Show on Sunday (8 March).

The Independent UK

Bruin the Clumber spaniel wins best in show at Crufts

It is the first time the breed has won best in show since 1991

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Four-year-old clumber spaniel called Bruin wins best in show at Crufts

Owner Lee Cox describes the winner as ‘dog of a lifetime’ as he claims the crown at prestigious dog contest

The Guardian - UK

Clumber spaniel named Bruin crowned best in show at Crufts

Bruin, handled by Lee Cox, was the winner of the Gundog group earlier in the show.

Evening Standard

Secret EncroChat messages drug dealers exchanged about 'idiot gofer'

A Liverpool gangster described Jack Brownsill as a "little idiot" in a series of secret messages

Liverpool Echo

Secret messages reveal how 'little regard' notorious crime family had for their gang member

Jack Brownsill has been jailed for four-and-half years

Manchester Evening News

'Festive Ape' bought cocaine stolen from Liverpool stash house

Criminal attended meeting near Manchester City's training ground where he bought cocaine

Liverpool Echo

Smiling cocaine boss thought he was 'undetectable'

A photograph of Leon Atkinson on a phone seized by police led to his downfall

Liverpool Echo

'ShaggyFarmer' moved dirty money out of Liverpool for major drug boss

Police discovered £200k in an Asda bag for life when they searched Abdul Ghafar's BMW

Liverpool Echo

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Liverpool Echo

Drug dealer who bought cocaine stolen from Liverpool 'firm' had letters from Dale Cregan

Leon Atkinson bought drugs stolen from a stash house during a violent raid

Liverpool Echo

Liverpool stash house raid led police to Dale Cregan associate

Exclusive: The story of how the theft of a massive coke haul from a Liverpool home led police to a man linked to Dale Cregan

Manchester Evening News

A laughing perv, a burgling mum and a man who sleeps with an axe... these are the faces of Manchester's newest prison inmates

The criminals handed prison sentences in April

Manchester Evening News

Salford gangsters used 'Man City' password for secret handover of £1m cocaine stash stolen from Liverpool gang

One customer was said to be left left 'fuming' about the password - as he was a Manchester United fan

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Liverpool Echo

Gangsters had 'Manchester City' meeting after stealing £1m in coke from Liverpool stash house

Drug dealer joked that his customer was 'fuming' over 'Man City password'

Liverpool Echo

Liverpool man's role in £1m cocaine heist shocks the underworld

Kirkdale man was at the centre of plot which has had profound consequences for organised crime on Merseyside

Daily Record

Baby-faced ASBO yobs now big-time drug dealers... but are marked men for life

Lifetime trouble-maker brothers Craig and Jason Cox, who were slapped with ASBOs aged 12 and 15, now face prison for a brutal heist.

Liverpool Echo

Baby faced ASBO yobs who became big time drug dealers

They were handed ASBOs aged 12 and 15 and now face jail for stealing £1m worth of cocaine

Manchester Evening News

Moment Salford crime family rob notorious Liverpool gang in £1m cocaine raid

They battered a man and his son with machetes and an axe

Liverpool Echo

Moment crime family robbed £1m of cocaine from Liverpool home caught on CCTV

Exclusive: The stash house raid that led to a major fall out in the region's underworld

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