Skipton Tesco News Today

A shoplifter stole from a Tesco supermarket because he was short of money and hungry, a court was told.

‘COUNTY lines’ criminal behaviour meant something a whole lot different 75 years ago in post war 1946, so it seems, when eggs and not hard drugs, were what was causing the police to set up roadblocks on the borders. The Craven Herald reported in May, 1946, on the strange case of eggs being intercepted in the country districts. Hundreds of dozens of eggs destined for the black market were being intercepted by police and returned to legitimate trade channels., reported the paper. “In ...