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The African elephants at West Midland Safari Park are now enjoying their new luxury habitat VISITORS to West Midland Safari Park will be able to catch a first glimpse at the newly-completed luxury elephant habitat when the attraction reopens from lockdown next week. The park’s African elephants will now be visible for safari drive-through guests at their new habitat, which has been purpose-built into the long-awaited Safari Lodges development.
The African elephants at West Midland Safari Park are now enjoying their new luxury habitat The area includes a vast drinking pool and waterfall which will be at the forefront of the new reserve.
Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission (Image: GETTY)
Since 2000, the UK has had a strategy in place to tackle tobacco smuggling which has achieved significant reductions in the size of the illicit market.
Between 2017 and 2019, more than 2.8 billion illicit cigarettes and in excess of 439 tonnes of hand-rolling tobacco were seized by UK customs officials.
HMRC has introduced new schemes to provide further controls on the tobacco supply chain and add further powers to challenge illicit production in the UK.
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Measures include the Raw Tobacco Approval Scheme in 2017, the Tobacco Products Manufacturing Machinery Licensing Scheme in August 2018 and Tobacco Track & Trace Scheme in May 2019.
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Pieter Cleppe was speaking after customs officials in Latvia said they had confiscated double the amount of illegal cigarettes crossing the border into the bloc from Belarus last year compared with 2019. And he said there were also big implications for the UK, citing a raid on an illegal factory in Belgium in December which netted a haul of 4.5 million cigarettes ready to be smuggled across the Channel.
Mr Cleppe, a Brussels-based research fellow with the think tank Property Rights Alliance, told Express.co.uk: With Brexit, organised crime may now get more opportunities.