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Armed cops have raided more homes in Middlesbrough – as gangland violence ravages the tinderbox town in the wake of the A66 crash.

Two men have appeared in court over the combined seizure of more than two million euro worth of drugs over the weekend.

A foiled napalm attack on a Ukrainian drone manufacturer in eastern Slovakia has exposed a hired sabotage plot that security officials say fits a broader pattern of hybrid warfare targeting Kyiv’s defense supply chain across Europe.

Once a booming 19th-century powerhouse at the centre of the UK’s steel, iron and shipbuilding industry, Middlesbrough was a proud example of British business success on the northeast coast.

Police today confirmed detectives are not linking a fatal house fire which killed a seven-year-old girl and her aunt to last weekend’s deadly A66 crash.

A record amount of ketamine seized at the UK border has reached a fifteen year high, as officials warn of “serious” health risks of using the drug.

A Middlesbrough MP has condemned the violence gripping the town as ’terrorism’, with residents left ’trapped in their homes’ after nine people were killed and 19 arrests were made in less than a week.

A fundraiser for the families of two police officers who died in a crash on the A66 last Saturday has received more than £1 million donations.

Kazakhstan’s Interior Ministry has released new details in the case against a Ukrainian organized criminal group, which investigators say was led by Vadim Gordiyevskiy.

A seven-year-old child and her aunt have been killed in Middlesbrough in a house fire believed to be linked to Saturday’s fatal A66 crash.

A murder investigation has been launched after two people have died in a house fire believed to be linked to Saturday’s fatal A66 crash.

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office in Munich (Germany), five individuals were arrested today in Czechia, suspected of being the organisers of a criminal VAT fraud scheme involving the sales of wireless earbuds.

A new Europol report reveals that criminal gangs in Europe are increasingly turning to violent, direct force to breach museums as they target precious metals and jewels that can be easily liquidated.

Hordes of balaclava-clad youths lit flares and set off balloons in a "vigil" for the dead A66 "joyriders" - just as mourners silently prayed for the two PCs killed in the same crash.

Twelve people aged 19 to 61 have been arrested in a probe following the fatal crash on the A66.

A group of thieves were caught by police as they tried to tunnel their way into a jewellery shop after an investigation linked them to a spate of burglaries worth more than £700,000.

Indonesian authorities have seized 2.6 metric tons of liquid methamphetamine hidden aboard a Tanzanian-flagged vessel in one of the country’s largest drug busts, the National Narcotics Agency announced Tuesday, according to state news agency Antara.

A £50,000 Rolex stolen within an hour of leaving a London shop. Gangs scouting victims outside hotels, restaurants and luxury stores. Watches worth hundreds of thousands of pounds ripped from wrists in holiday resorts. LBC investigates the organised trade in stolen timepieces, and why many victims never tell the police.

In the trial of business magnate Yorgen Fenech, a middleman’s secret recordings and auto-deleting texts exposed the chilling mechanics behind the 2017 car bombing—and the political leaks that shielded the killers.

Airbnb-type short-term rentals are being used as stash houses by criminal gangs for money, drugs, weapons and people, Belgium’s lead official in charge of countering drugs has said.

Border Force officers intercepted an almost 3-tonne shipment of banana boxes hiding £200,000,000 worth of cocaine.

The extradition of Daniel Kinahan was the most tracked flight in the world as it approached Ireland on Sunday.

Daniel Kinahan has returned to Ireland for the first time in 10 years — but his accommodation will not be as luxurious as what it was in Dubai.

With its neat garden and tightly closed blinds, the small terraced house on the windswept north-west peninsula of the Wirral looks unremarkable.