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Drug with a street value of up to £40,000 were found in a birthday card by UK Border Agency officers on 18 November.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
Border Force officers in Ghana have helped seize cocaine worth an estimated £200,000 which had been hidden in lollipops.
Men aged 62 and 82 are charged with attempting to smuggle approximately £200,000 of the drug into the UK.
Border Force officers seize 850 kilos of cocaine in UK's largest cocaine haul in two years.
Border Force officers have seized approximately 63 kilos of cocaine found in a lorry stopped at Dover.
The crew of a Royal Navy warship has seized a massive 680-kilogram stash of cocaine with an estimated street value of £100 million.
A record haul of cocaine seized by the UK Border Agency, working with SOCA and the Dutch National Crime Squad, has led to the arrest of six members of an international drugs ring.
An attempt to smuggle 168 kgs of cocaine - worth an estimated £17 million - into the UK has been stopped by Border Force at Tilbury
UK Border Agency officers have found drugs with a street value of £8.25m hidden inside industrial digger machinery.
A gang of drug smugglers have been jailed for a total of 20 years in The Netherlands after Border Force officers foiled their plot.
Border Force officers at Heathrow are linking a seizure of cocaine at the airport to a massive haul of cannabis found the day before.
A record haul of cocaine seized by the UK Border Agency has led to the arrest of six members of an international drugs ring.
Don’t carry items through border control for other people says UK Border Agency after man dies consuming liquid cocaine.
Border Force officers at Harwich International Port have prevented an attempt to smuggle approximately 54 kilos of cocaine into the UK.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
'Recreational' drug users to face tougher penalties under new proposals subject to consultation.
Four Spanish nationals who were behind one of the biggest ever cocaine seizures at Gatwick Airport have been jailed for a total of 42 years.
Six men and women posing as cruise ship passengers have been jailed today for a total of 87 years for attempting to smuggle around 35 kilos of cocaine into the UK.
Border Force officers in Dover find cocaine hidden in a lorry.
Employment Tribunal decision.
A Royal Navy warship has seized cocaine with a wholesale value of £10 million from a yacht in the Caribbean.
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