Helen Burchell BBC News Essex Border Force The cocaine haul was one of the largest of the past decade Cocaine with a street value of almost £100m has been seized by Border Force officers in “one of the largest drugs busts of the past decade”. The shipment was intercepted earlier this month on a container...
Sammy Awami BBC News, Karonga BBC / Sammy Awami Jeniffa Mshani says small traders, mostly women, are being harassed at the border Traders are counting their losses as Tanzania clamps down on people trying to flout a ban on goods from neighbouring Malawi in an escalating regional trade row. On Friday, businesswomen told the BBC...
Cameron Weldon BBC News, South West BBC Clive Angior said he used to carry his late wife’s bus pass in his pocket for sentimental reasons A man from Devon said a “total mistake” left him upset as he lost a treasured item that belonged to his late wife. Clive Angior, 81, from Plympton, said he...
A lawyer who represents a pro-Palestinian student protester in Michigan was detained Sunday at the Detroit Metro Airport on his way back from a family vacation. Dearborn attorney Amir Makled was separated from his wife and children and asked to surrender his cellphone by Border Patrol agents. “This wasn’t something that was random,” says Makled....
Chelsea midfielder Moises Caicedo has had his Audi RS Q8 car seized by police after he was suspected of driving without a valid licence. The Ecuador international, 23, was stopped in the car, which costs a minimum of £125,000 if bought new, on Friday near the club’s training ground in Cobham, Surrey. “A man in...
The egg seizures showcase the Trump administration’s failure to act on rising consumer costs. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the agency tasked with preventing the transport of unauthorized items across the country’s borders, has been conducting more seizures of illegally imported eggs and egg-related goods than of fentanyl, the drug President Donald Trump frequently...
Thousands of illegal cigarettes have been taken off Devon and Somerset’s streets as part of a major operation. Trading Standards South West (TSSW) and police officers visited 50 premises across the region during a week of action from 10 to 14 March. The crackdown – part of Operation CeCe – seized 127,371 illegal cigarettes, 65.94kg...