DRUGS CHARGE A Walsall driver has appeared in court charged
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with attempting to smuggle cannabis worth £8m into the UK. Leslie lambs, of Bloxwich. was arrested after 2,500kg of cannabis resin was found inside a truck as it disembarked from a ferry at Portsmouth Docks on 3 February.
FIU.SE COPS A driver was robbed at gunpoint of cigarettes worth thousands of pounds by thieves posing as police officers. He stopped his truck on the A23 near Pease Pottage, West Sussex, after he saw a car with a flashing blue light in his mirror.
FUEL IHREAT Brynle Williams, the North Wales farmer who spearheaded some of last year's biggest fuel blockades, has warned that fuel campaigners will return to the barricades if politicians fail to bring down the rate of fuel duty.
BUY-OIT
Troubled parcels and logistics firm Nightfreight has agreed on a management buy-out in a bid to salvage the business. It values the company at £35.1m.
CHEMICAL SPILL More than 50 people have been injured following a chemical spill on an industrial estate. Staffordshire Ambulance Service declared a major incident after a leak of titanium tetrachloride from a tanker in Stoneydelph, Tamworth, on Tuesday 6 February.
SNOW CHAOS Traffic chaos has been caused In Scotland and the north of England by heavy snow with drifts of up to 211ft reported in some places. One man died after the car he was travelling in hit a snowplough.