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  • 1 week ago | manchestereveningnews.co.uk | Amy Walker

    Chelsea Blanton was jailed for 17 monthsAn American drug mule was caught at Manchester Airport with 28 kilos of cannabis in a ‘risky gamble’ for a ‘life-changing’ sum. Chelsea Blanton, 29, had travelled from Texas to Saudi Arabia to Malaysia before heading to Manchester via Heathrow. She was stopped by Border Force officers on May 7 this year. In her suitcase, officers found 15 vacuum sealed packages of cannabis in her two suitcases. Their wholesale value was £80,000, Manchester Crown Court heard.

  • 2 weeks ago | tz.de | Amy Walker

    tzWirtschaftElon Musk steht vor weiteren Problemen: Tesla-Kunden fordern die Auflösung ihrer Leasing-Verträge. Ein Fahrzeug eines „Rechtsextremen“ wollen sie nicht mehr steuern. Paris – Eine Gruppe französischer Tesla-Kunden hat das Unternehmen des US-Milliardärs Elon Musk wegen des ihrer Ansicht nach nun „rechtsextremen“ Images der Marke verklagt.

  • 2 weeks ago | manchestereveningnews.co.uk | Amy Walker

    The Manchester Evening News has looked back on the criminals who were jailed in our region this weekA drugs gang who operated out of a disused nightclub are amongst those who are behind bars this week. The group ran a cannabis empire out of at least eight farms in residential and commercial properties, as well as a storage facility housing both equipment and harvested cannabis plants. They are now facing lengthy terms in prison.

  • 2 weeks ago | manchestereveningnews.co.uk | Amy Walker

    Wasim Omar, and four others, stole more than £100,000 from their victims in a ten-month rampageA crook caught throwing a snapbag of drugs away when visiting a prison inmate was involved in a series of vile ‘hostile’ dating app robberies months later. Wasiim Omar and a group of others targeted gay men on Grindr in order to violently rob them.

  • 2 weeks ago | walesonline.co.uk | Amy Walker

    Katie Wheeler and John Meehan have spoken out about their beloved daughter Genevieve Meehan, known as Gigi, who was killed by her nursery workerGenevieve Meehan’s parents thought they had taken their 9-month-old daughter to a safe place when dropping her off at nursery. They could not have ever imagined that hours later she would be killed by the very person that was supposed to be caring for her.

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Nick Jackson

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Clare Fallon

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Neil Hodgson

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