James Gamble

2 weeks ago | watfordobserver.co.uk | James Gamble

Brazen drug dealers are targeting children near schools by trying to sell them cannabis using QR codes on lampposts. Furious locals believe the stickers - of a shiny marijuana leaf with a scannable QR code below - are being used to tempt "impressionable" kids to get hooked on illegal substances. Herts Police have confirmed they are looking into the origin of the stickers, after dozens were placed at children’s eye level on lampposts near to Parkgate Junior School in North Watford.

2 weeks ago | essexlive.news | James Gamble

A family of cannabis cooks who made hundreds of thousands of pounds selling homemade edibles have been ordered to pay back more than £50,000. Twin brothers Bradley and Brendan Vidovic, along with mum Paula, made over £400,000 in little over a year supplying a wide selection of cannabis food products from their home in Colchester, Essex.

2 weeks ago | thenorthernecho.co.uk | James Gamble

Brian Wilkins - known as the 'Bird Man of Hartlepool' - feeding birds in the town (Image: Paula Allison / SWNS) A grandfather known as 'the Bird Man' has been threatened with jail if he feeds any animals across the UK. Brian Wilkins, who buys as many as 30 loaves of bread a day to feed the "starving" birds of his hometown, was also ordered to pay out £2,000 in fines and costs. The emotional 77-year-old blasted the decision as "heinous" and "beyond evil".

3 weeks ago | hartlepoolmail.co.uk | James Gamble

A pensioner who faces a possible jail sentence if he continues feeding birds has labelled his court conviction “grossly unfair”. Brian Wilkins – nicknamed “The Bird Man of Hartlepool” after buying up to 30 loaves of bread a day for birds – is banned from leaving food in “public spaces or accessible areas” throughout the town until April 2027. The two-year criminal behaviour order was imposed by Teesside magistrates after Hartlepool Borough Council took Wilkins to court as “a last resort”.

3 weeks ago | greenevillesun.com | James Gamble

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