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Sunday, October 26, 2003
“Crack dealers targeting rural towns: Drug gangs from inner city areas are targeting rural areas across Britain, a BBC Panorama investigation has revealed.
The programme, to be shown on BBC One at 22.15 GMT on Sunday 26 October reveals that as many as nine gangs from Wolverhampton are operating in the north-east of Scotland.
Big inner city drug dealers began targeting Aberdeen, and the surrounding fishing towns such as Fraserburgh and Peterhead in the mid 1990s.
BBC - follow links to download programme.“Creeping menace of Yardies’ crack cocaine trade revealed: When Margaret and Jack Beveridge moved to the affluent, coastal village of Newburgh, just outside Aberdeen, two-and-a-half decades ago, they were confident they had found a safe haven for their children to grow up in. The problems of Britain?s crime-ridden inner-city estates seemed a million miles away. . .” Scotsman
Posted by MM
on Sun 26th Oct 2003
at 5:31 pm
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