Charities suggest ‘gendered understanding’ of crime means services often fail to recognise girls and young women as victims ...

"Cuckooing" is the term for people's homes being taken over by a group or individual for illegal activities, often associated with drug dealing After a crackdown on county lines drug dealing, 45 ...

Dyfed-Powys Police disrupted 15 cuckooing locations and removed class A drugs from the streets during County Lines ...

The Home Office has announced some 2,740 county lines were shut down between January and December last year, with 1,657 gang ...

Hundreds of county lines operations have been smashed and scores of suspected drug dealers arrested during a nationwide week of intense police action. County Lines are organised criminal networks that ...

NORTH Yorkshire author and knife crime campaigner Christina Gabbitas has been speaking at York's historic Guildhall.

More than 2,700 drug lines closed and nearly 1,000 knives seized in 2025 - The figure for 2025 is the highest since records began under ...