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Ten held as drugs worth £10m seized at north London warehouse Anthony France Ten men have been arrested after more than £10 million of drugs were seized at an industrial unit in north London. Detectives spent months investigating the gang made up of six Turkish suspects, three Britons and one Italian national. Officers raided the warehouse in Enfield and discovered 109kg of cocaine and 15kg of heroin with a street value of £10,220,000 on Tuesday. The suspects aged in their 20s, 30s and 40s are currently being questioned in police custody. The National Crime Agency and Metro...

Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images 1 Rich countries close their eyes to the global Covid surge at their own peril on a vulnerable world Last week there were more than 5.8 million new cases of Covid across the world, the highest number yet, says Laura Spinney in The Guardian. The “sharpest upticks” have been seen in south-east Asia, the eastern Mediterranean and western Pacific regions, while the “situation is also very bad in Latin America”. We can be confident that poorer countries will contribute most of this year’s Covid deaths and “we should remember that rich countries are not imm...

Locked Up: Our round up of criminals jailed in Greater Manchester this week These are some of the criminals put behind bars in our region over the last week 17:49, 17 APR 2021 Updated Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice More criminals have been locked up this week as court cases conclude across Greater Manchester. Those put behind bars over the past seven days include a man who set fire...

Raging dad who had axe sellotaped to his wrist told man who knocked on his door 'I'll take your head' Craig Jeffrey, 32, had also threatened to burn a woman's house down for telling his ex to 'step up as a mum' Craig Jeffrey (Image: Greater Manchester Police) For all the latest news from in and around Bolton, sign up for the free MyBolton newsletterInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Thank you for subscri...

Bolton Crown Court A MAN has been jailed after threatening to burn a woman’s house down after she questioned his partner’s parenting skills. Craig Jeffrey, 32, further threatened a man with an axe before calling a police officer “PC D***head”, Bolton Crown Court heard. Mark Brookes, prosecuting, said a dispute between Jeffrey, of Townsfield Road, Westhoughton, and the woman resulted in him phoning her 60 times and threatening to burn her house down and petrol bomb the house where she lived with her husband and daughter. On January 2 this year, Lee Ollerton received a call from...