Winchester Crown Court. Inset, cannabis A DRUG dealer who was caught with over £7,000 hidden in his underpants has avoided an immediate prison sentence. David Hirons was a passenger in a vehicle stopped on the A34 on December 23, 2019, and police instantly smelt cannabis. Hirons and the driver admitted to using the drug.
Winchester Crown Court heard on Thursday that cannabis and another drug was found in the side pocket of the vehicle – each weighed about a gram. Officers carried out a search of Hirons and £7,145 was found hidden in his underpants, which was understood to be used “for a payment for a reload of drugs”.
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Firefighters race to huge fire at farm FIREFIGHTERS raced to a huge fire at an Oxfordshire farm yesterday. Bicester and Banbury crews were first at the scene of a well-developed fire in Middleton Stoney in the afternoon. The fire started on the ground floor but was spreading to the first floor and ceiling when they arrived. The teams, wearing specialist breathing equipment, used a thermal image camera to extinguish the fire with hosereels. Writing on Facebook Oxfordshire Fire and Resuce Service shared pictures of the building, which has been left completely gutted from the fire. They wrote: After an investigation the cause of the fire was deemed to be accidental.