Children as young as 13 and 14 are running violent county lines drug gangs across the UK as school exclusions and vanishing ...

"Teens are heading up drug networks controlling supply lines 80 miles long, ordering punishments, wearing balaclavas, and brandishing machetes.

The authorities “will be relentless” in tackling drug smuggling, the crime minister has vowed, after police efforts resulted ...

More than 2,300 drug smuggling “deal lines” have been shut off in the past year, new figures from the Home Office have ...

In addition to charging and closing record numbers of deal lines, the County Lines Programme has referred more than 3,200 children and vulnerable people to supportive services and provided more than ...

Sharmeran Hussin and Dastan Ghafour were jailed after a trial at Peterborough Crown Court [Cambridgeshire Police] Two county line drug dealers operating a cocaine network between Cambridgeshire and ...

A man was arrested in a dramatic police raid on a home in Liverpool as part of an operation targeting drug smuggling - as crime and policing minister Sarah Jones vowed to crack down on the “evil trade ...

On 7 October 2025, armed officers stormed a property in Liverpool, arresting a 29-year-old man from Kirkby on suspicion of ...

Adam Clowes was found to have been part of a county line drugs operation after phones were seized following a stop-and-search ...

Two county line drug dealers operating a cocaine network between Cambridgeshire and Wales have been jailed. Officers raided ...