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BBC Scotland: Highlands Islands, today, has the above and :
A man and a woman have been arrested and charged in connection with drug offences after £100,000 worth of cocaine was discovered during a stop-and-search. Police Scotland halted the vehicle on the A9 near Crubenmore in the Highlands at about 12:55 on Friday.
They said a quantity of the class A substance and a three-figure sum of cash had been recovered by officers. A 43-year-old man and a woman, aged 55, are due to appear in court at a later date.
and that’s it.
No names. No details of where they’re coming from or where they’re going to. Obviously they can’t reveal the names until the court case but you can be sure that the court case will not be reported because then we’ll know they’re not Scots.
They could easily mention what we all know already. They’re from Liverpool and they’re going to Inverness rather than Crubenmore, population zero, just a bridge, with all that cocaine.
How do I know?
The ‘Scottish‘ media above collectively hanging on to our drug deaths sadness and discounting any progress.
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Utterly ignored by ‘your’ media but in the Liverpool Echo in November 2022, above, and:
A series of raids across Scotland last week highlighted the continuing focus of Merseyside’s organised crime groups on the drugs market north of the border. Last week officers from Merseyside Police teamed up with Police Scotland for raids in Peterhead, Aberdeen and in Knowsley. On Wednesday, November 2, Police Scotland raided an address in Peterhead where cocaine and heroin were recovered and a man and woman arrested.
Debate has been raging north of the border over how to handle drug-related deaths, which have remained high for a number of years and show little sign of significantly reducing. Scotland still has the highest number of drug deaths in Europe. In 2021, 1,295 deaths were linked to illicit drugs in Scotland, albeit down from 1,411 in 2020 which represented the highest number on record.
Liverpool based street gangs do not appear to have been phased by the misery, death and addiction on the streets of Glasgow and other Scottish cities and towns, however. In 2018, a National Crime Agency (NCA) annual strategic assessment said: “Significant serious organised crime connections exist between Scotland and the north west of England, predominantly Merseyside.
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/liverpool-drugs-gangs-still-eye-25476347
Was any of that reported by BBC Scotland, STV? I can find nothing.
The Liverpool Echo is making a clear causal connection between Liverpool drug gangs, the flood of cheap, more powerful, drugs into Scotland and our still far too high drug deaths. Why are Scotland’s media ignoring that?
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When the ‘Liverpool Echo’ can report on this, so could BBC Scotland (MacPravda). All they need do is is report, “according to the ‘Liverpool Echo’……” That they do not is an editorial decision taken in Pacific Quay or elsewhere.
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