UK's 'biggest ever crime bust': 700-plus suspected crooks arrested and murder plots foiled as mountains of dirty cash, tonnes of drugs and dozens of guns seized by cops

Jake Kanter International TV EditorThe BBC and ITV’s joint-venture streamer BritBox has pulled the curtain back on its first slate of UK drama originals, just weeks after Deadline revealed that Damian Lewis and Dominic West will star in an adaptation of A Spy Among Friends for the streamer.Building on the Kim Philby espionage thriller, which BritBox is co-producing with Spectrum Originals, the subscription video service has announced three fresh projects — all of which are literary adaptations

MDMA, LSD, cannabis and crystal meth that cops have ever seen has been jailed for more than 10 years. Patrick Scotland was rumbled after Border Force officers intercepted packages addressed to him from the Netherlands that contained 6kg of ecstasy hidden inside children’s toys.

Live At The Edinburgh Playhouse Theatre, from 1976. The weekly concerts began on Friday 3rd July at 5pm BST (9am PST, 12pm EST).

housing market was given a shot in the arm today as Kate Forbes announced a tax break in a bid to get the economy moving. Holyrood's finance secretary announced a package of measures in response to the mini-Budget announcement by UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak on Wednesday.

were announced as part of Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s wider plan to boost the UK’s economy as it looks to recover from coronavirus.

East Kilbride company has secured a multi-million pound contract that will help further its expansion. Hayward Tyler Fluid Handling will now develop a prototype valve for a nuclear plant operator in the UK.All going well with the nuclear contract, the College Milton company now has the potential to produce up to 150 further units.

Coronation Street’s Joe Duttine and Sally Carman have opened up on their recent engagement following a romantic lockdown proposal.The couple, who play Tim Metcalfe and Abi Franklin on the ITV soap, are set to tie the knot after Joe proposed while in quarantine at home. Appearing on Good Morning Britain, the pair revealed how they fell for each other behind the scenes on the show, saying they “clicked slowly”.

KSI’s album Dissimulation leads the way as the UK's biggest debut studio album released in 2020 so far, OfficialCharts.com can confirm.

Beck has rescheduled his planned UK and European gigs for summer 2021 due to the coronavirus – see the new dates below.The shows, on the back of last year’s ‘Hyperspace’ album, feature two nights at London’s Brixton Academy.The tour dates were provisionally cancelled back in May, and now the Italian and UK shows of the initial run have been given new dates.Original shows due to take place in Iceland, Luxembourg, France, Germany, the Czech Republic and Switzerland have yet to be rescheduled, with

child sex abuser who called himself 'The Devil' raped a baby and then shared the vile images with other paedophiles.'Depraved' Barry Hudson-Muscroft has been jailed for 18 years over a series of horrific incidents after being caught on an online network trying to trade sordid footage for similar material.The 33-year-old was finally caught when an undercover US sheriff posing as a member of the warped group told the FBI who then alerted the UK authorities, according to The Manchester Evening

Abdul Ghafar, 44, of Roberts Street, Nelson: money laundering and supply of Class A drugs.Romaz Ahmed, 37, of Rossall Road, Rochdale, money laundering.Nathan Powell, 29, of Cheney Close, Openshaw, conspiracy to supply Class A drugs, and money laundering.Craig O'Brien, 31, of Further Pits, Rochdale, conspiracy to supply Class A drugs.Ryan Denton, 36, of Bury Road, Rochdale, conspiracy to supply class A drugs.Craig Cox, 31, of Lance Todd Close, conspiracy to commit robbery; conspiracy to supply