I’m grateful to rtpscot for alerting me to this. BBC Scotland has never mentioned that the illegal cheap drug business in Scotland’s towns and villages and by association out drug deaths, is now utterly dominated by County Lines gangs based in England. They have only once used the County Lines names in one headline back in 2021 and, to my knowledge, only once referred to the source cities once in 2019. In 2017, BBC Scotland Highlands and Islands, when the label was less familiar, had: A Highlands woman has been described as a “central figure” in a gang’s distribution of … Continue reading BBC Highlands in 2017 – off-message and reporting on English drug gangs behind a 270% surge in violent crime and increased drug deaths