Students are being warned about the dangers of consuming plant food after seven young people were arrested at a Lancaster nightclub.
Doorstaff alerted the police when they found white powder during searches on the students at …

Mind-altering drugs are still readily available in High Street shops despite a number of so-called “legal highs” being banned by the UK government.
The ban was introduced in December as a result of health fears.
But BBC …

Three men who were part of a raid in which a stun gun was held to a six-month-old baby’s head have been jailed.
James Bound, Stephen Sefton and Connar Symons, all from Plymouth, barged into a …

A Merseyside police officer has been found guilty of plotting to supply drugs seized in a police raid.
Clive French, 33, of Lexton Drive, Southport, was convicted at Liverpool Crown Court of conspiracy to supply cannabis.
John …

Police in a south Wales community are trying to tackle the supply of valium after a number of people, including children, have been taken to hospital.
Neath Port Talbot officers say people who have taken them …

Two men, aged 22 and 43, have been charged with money laundering and importing controlled drugs.
They were among five people arrested in west Belfast on Monday. Three houses were searched and a quantity of drugs …

Travellers to the United Arab Emirates are being warned about its severe drug laws which have seen dozens detained for apparently minor offences.
Fair Trials International said arrests were being made over tiny quantities of drugs …

A new family of drugs offering users a “legal high” has been found by researchers in London.
They are based on cathinone, the active ingredient in the plant khat, commonly used as a stimulant in East …

A man from Staffordshire has handed himself into police following a series of drugs raids in Tamworth.
About 200 Staffordshire Police officers carried out the dawn raids on Monday as part of the Operation Nemesis crackdown …

A professional kick-boxer who was wanted by police on suspicion of drugs offences has been arrested in Holland.
Adam Hart left the UK in August 2007 as police officers searched his home in Purfleet, Essex.
He is …

More drugs are are being imported into Jersey by post, the customs and excise department has said.
The director of law enforcement at customs said packages were being mailed to empty or shared addresses and then …

Six men accused over an alleged £1m plot to import drugs into Jersey set it up as “just a little starter”, a jury in the island has been told.
John Welsh, 43, and Curtis Warren, 46, …

Even in these mutable times Stoney Middleton is about the last place that you would expect to find a Class A drugs factory. In the Derbyshire Peak District, overlooked by spectacular cliffs, it is the …

A fugitive drug courier who was not arrested despite appearing in an English court while on the run has been jailed for three years and nine months.
Liverpudlian John McMahon, 38, fled after being bailed on …

Three more people have been charged with drugs-related offences following a two-day crackdown on drug suppliers by Surrey Police.
They were charged with being concerned in the supply of Class A drugs.
Twenty-two people have now been …

A large haul of dangerous weapons has been seized by police during an operation targeting drugs in Aberdeen.
Knives, crossbows and other weapons were recovered during Operation Lochnagar.
It is the largest operation of its kind ever …

Police in Berkshire carried out a drug testing operation on more than 400 bar goers as a condition of entry.
Thames Valley Police ran the checks on 445 people who entered the Walkabout bar, off Friar …

A specialist court which deals only with drug offenders has opened in a South Yorkshire town.
The court, within Barnsley Magistrates’ Court, will deal solely with offenders who commit low-level crimes to feed their addictions.
Offenders are …

An online service for drug addicts has been set up on Tyneside.
Gateshead City Council has created a website, which has a range of resources related to drug misuse, in a bid to prevent further deaths.
Last …

Detectives in Lancashire are following up a new lead after calls to a televised appeal to help catch one of their most wanted men.
Dion Kendrick Lee, 32, is suspected of involvement in importing class A …