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Welcome to bbc news. A british woman accused of smuggling drugs into egypt has been sentenced to three years in jail. Laura plummer, whos 33 and from hull, was arrested in october with 290 tablets of the painkiller, tramadol, which is banned in egypt. A spokesman from the Foreign Office says they will continue to provide assistance to the family. This family, we are disgusted that it has been able to carry on this long. In what country are you actually allowed to submit a 38 page document in arabic for somebody to sign it without having an interpreter. From day one this has been a complete nightmare and yesterday in the court she wasnt even allowed to have her own interpreter, she had to get the Court Interpreter who was interpreting the wrong answers, so we are disgusted and we are so upset, absolutely devastated. Do you know what happened in court today . Was itjust a se ....
Millions of shoppers across the country have headed to the high street today for the traditional boxing day sales. In some places the queues began to form outside stores in the early hours of the morning, with Research Suggesting that one in three people went in search of a bargain today. But some retailers have reported large numbers of people deciding to look for bargains online today instead. And analysts say that footfall in high streets and Shopping Centres across the uk has been lower than expected. Duncan kennedy is in southampton. It is looking rather quiet tonight, duncan. Yes, its around about six oclock, things are starting to wind down but managers in centres like this one are saying they had the high footfall day, in other words there are plenty of people coming into Shopping Centres like this one a ....
Snap election. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. A british woman has been sentenced to three years in prison after being convicted of smuggling drugs into the country. A british woman has been sentenced to three years in prison in egypt after being found guilty of smuggling drugs into the country. Laura plummer, whos 33 and from hull, was arrested in october when she was found carrying almost 300 tablets of the painkiller, tramadol, in her suitcase. Daniela relph reports. Laura plummers family and friends say she is naive, not a criminal. But today the 33 year old shop workerfrom hull is beginning a three year sentence injail in egypt. Her mother, roberta, and her egyptian partner, 0mar caboo, have been at court to support her during the hearings this week. Laura plummer had been travelling to the red sea resort of hurghada to visit 0mar in october when she was stopped by the authorities. In her suitcase were 290 tramadol tablets, a painkiller which is legal on prescription in brit ....
Over one month to go until deal Winter Olympics in south korea, i will be checking out some of our biggest medal prospects. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. A british woman has been sentenced to three years in prison in egypt after being found guilty of smuggling drugs into the country. Laura plummer, whos 33 and from hull, was arrested in october when 300 tablets of the painkiller tramadol were found in her suitcase. Daniela relph reports. Laura plummers family and friends say she is naive, not a criminal. But today the 33 year old shop workerfrom hull is beginning a three year sentence injail in egypt. Her mother, roberta, and her egyptian partner, omar caboo, have been at court to support her during the hearings this week. Laura plummer had been travelling to the red sea resort of hurghada to visit omar in october when she was stopped by the authorities. In her suitcase were 290 tramadol tablets, a painkiller which is leg ....