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the bbc has heard evidence that albanian drug gangs are using migrant camps in northern france as a recruitment ground, offering to pay the passage of people who looking for better economic prospects and are prepared to work in the uk s illegal drugs trade. albanians account for at least one third of the 38,000 people who ve crossed the channel to england this year, according to the latest government figures. 0ur correspondent lucy williamson reports. for each boat, each migrant, there can be many smugglers. albanian fixers, uk guarantors, kurdish criminal gangs. one man who paid for a place on a kurdish boat this summer says he was approached by recruiters for the uk drugs trade in a dunkirk migrant camp. translation: they offered me lots of things - - to pay for thejourney, to give me a job, but i wasn t interested. they asked me four or five times. this is where the albanian migrant trail begins. small towns like laknas marked by absence the shuttered houses and em ....
Honks whistle. Along the way, ill cross some stunning landscapes and meet people whose lives have been transformed by the Great British railway. I wanted to bring us down this slimyjetty here cos i wanted to show off Portsmouth Harbour station. As you come in, you feel like youre on land, but actually, its an old pier. And this used to function as a Freight Boat Pier in the mid 1800s. Im starting my Rail Adventure on englands southern coastline, passing through london, the midlands, into the yorkshire dales, then crossing scotland up through the highlands, and hopefully making it to thurso, the most northerly Railway Station in the uk. Sometimes find hermit crabs. There isnt a hermit crab in this one tho ....
I fully accept now that the post office, excuse me. Former Chief Executive of the post Office Paula Vennells breaks down in tears while giving evidence to the inquiry into the Horizon It Scandal, and admits she made mistakes tributes are paid to the former british Olympic Swimming Champion david wilkie, whos died at the age of 70. A number of Flood Warnings are starting to rise after relentless rain, more to come for some today but something a bit brighter across the south. Will that become more extensive as we head towards the Bank Holiday Weekend . Its thursday 23rd may. Our main story. The uk will go to the polls six weeks to ....