How London’s men got caught in a blizzard of cocaine
February 8, 2026
It’s an early weekday morning in east London. The city around him is slowly waking up, but Danny* has yet to go to sleep. When he finished his shift working front of house at a popular Borough Market restaurant last night, he bought a gram of cocaine and finished it in his flat, alone. He […]
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A family friend who has known Winter Olympics gold medal hopeful Mia Brookes since she first began snowboarding has said the world champion was sliding down slopes “almost as soon as she could walk”. Brookes, 19, from Sandbach, Cheshire, will begin her campaign on Sunday, having been too young to take part in Beijing in […]
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A man has been charged with scores of sex offences, some dating as far back as 2003. Adebayo Adeyemi, 58, has been charged with 33 offences against five women, including rape and sexual assault. The attacks are alleged to have taken place across south London between 2003 and 2019. The charges against him include six […]
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A man has been charged with murder after a woman’s body was discovered in Merseyside. The body of Delia McInerney, 64, was found in Gerards Court, Hawes Avenue, Clinkham Wood, St Helens, on 8 January. Police said George Christopher Gordon, of Gerards Court, Hawes Avenue, Clinkham Wood, St Helens, has been charged with murder. The […]
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Nestled on the cusp of Greater London and Kent, Swanley is increasingly recognised as a favourable yet often overlooked commuter town. Despite its London postcode under Bromley (BR8), the town itself belongs to the Sevenoaks district in Kent, offering a unique blend of suburban convenience and countryside charm. Though some locals feel the town is […]
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‘If I could move, I would – to a place without a heat network. But I can’t while this debt is hanging over me,” says Anja Georgiou. The mother lives with her family in a rented flat in the River Gardens development in Greenwich in south-east London where, three years ago, residents were shocked to […]
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More than 80 warnings of expected flooding are in place as relentless rain continues to soak the country. The Environment Agency (EA) has issued 91 flood warnings, mostly scattered across the south and south-west England and the East and West Midlands. On Saturday morning, the EA also had 261 flood alerts in place, meaning flooding […]
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A pupil who allegedly assaulted a teacher at a school in Milford Haven has been charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm and possession of a bladed article on education premises, police said. Dyfed-Powys Police said the 15-year-old boy has been remanded in custody and is scheduled to appear at Swansea Magistrates’ Court on Saturday. Senior […]
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Beavers are set to be released at two sites in south-west England as part of efforts to reintroduce the species into the wild. Natural England said it has issued two further licences to release the semi-aquatic animals, which engineer the landscape with dams, ponds and channels that boost other wildlife and help counter flooding and […]
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A senior SNP MSP has claimed Reform UK has reached its “peak” in Scotland and the party’s performance at May’s election will not reflect the polls. Reform UK has been surging in the polls in the past year, with a recent survey putting Nigel Farage’s party in second place ahead of Labour. But Mairi McAllan, […]
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