Off-the-scale cocaine dealer caught with £700,000 of drugs in secret compartment van
Jonathan Kenney travelled across the country in a specially adapted van to try and trick police
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Drug dealer (Image: Devon Police)
A drug dealer was caught with a staggering amount of cocaine driving down from Liverpool to Devon, which a judge said was off the scale.
The trips, across the country during the pandemic lockdown, were part of a large-scale criminal enterprise flooding cocaine from Merseyside to the south coast.
When police stopped his van in August, they had to take it apart to find the drugs, and discovered it was controlled by an electronic system which had to be activated remotely by the driver to open it.
Three weeks of strikes over senseless University of Liverpool job cuts
Union members will also today begin working to rule as management look to cut 32 teaching and research jobs
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University of Liverpool s Victoria Building (Image: Colin Lane/Liverpool Echo)
Nearly 1,300 staff at the University of Liverpool are set to strike for three weeks in protest against senseless planned job cuts. Members of the University and College Union (UCU) have signalled they will walk out in May and June unless the university halts its plans.
Employees plan to be on strike for every working day in three stretches - from Monday, May 24 to Friday, May 28, Tuesday, June 1 ti Friday, June 4, and Monday, June 7 to Friday, June 11.
Man, 36, dies after home intruders break in and attack him
The victim suffered serious head injuries and died in hospital
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Clorain Road, Kirkby. (Image: google)
A murder probe is underway after two men entered a house in Kirkby and attacked the occupant who later died. Police rushed to the scene on Clorain Road at about 10.30pm last night following reports intruders had gone inside the address. It was said they left a short time later, and the occupant, a man, 36, was found with a serious head injury.
He was taken to hospital where he died, this morning.
A murder investigation has been launched and two men have been arrested, aged 32 and 34.
Boy, 14, arrested over model railway arson and listed building fire
The child was arrested on suspicion of two counts of arson with intent to endanger life
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Damage caused to the clubhouse of Merseyside Live Steam and Model Engineers
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Liverpool s finest restaurant 60 Hope Street closes for good
The highly acclaimed city centre bistro has not opened since the start of the first Covid lockdown in March 2020
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Gary and Colin Manning took the decision to close 60 Hope Street restaurant for good after 22 years (Image: instagram/60hopestreet)
The owner of the city restaurant widely thought to be the finest in Liverpool for many years explained why they have closed their doors for the final time after more than two decades.
60 Hope Street shut due to the Covid-19 pandemic at the end of March 2020, and has not reopened at any stage during the changing easing of restrictions because it was not commercially viable .