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Gang jailed after police make one of UK's largest heroin and cocaine seizures on North Wales farm

Police raided a farm in North Wales and found class A drugs with a street value of £64m

Alex Black
Deputy Editor
clock • 2 min read
Gang jailed after police make one of UK's largest heroin and cocaine seizures on North Wales farm

A gang has been jailed after one of the UK's largest seizures of heroin and cocaine. The class A drugs were smuggled through the Channel Tunnel before being taken to a farm in North Wales. The farm...

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