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High Street mini-marts selling cocaine, cannabis and prescription drugs, BBC secret filming reveals

criminal activity on UK High Streets. From Bideford in Devon, to Great Yarmouth in Norfolk

'We will kill you and burn your house': Council staff under attack from High Street gangs

UK government told us it was establishing a new task force to strengthen the response to illegality on High Streets and money laundering - including 120 new Trading Standards apprentices - supported by £10m a year

‘Dodgy’ shops handling criminal cash targeted by new unit

UK each year, with £1bn laundered through high street businesses such as mini-marts, barber shops, vape stores and sweet shops. Some businesses are also connected to the sale of fake goods, tax evasion, illegal

New High Street crime unit to target gangs fronting shops after BBC investigation

UK.](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgevynly99o) In November last year, we [exposed asylum seekers buying and selling High Street mini marts for cash,](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0mx99ple17o) criminal [kingpins erasing £60,000 illegal working fines,](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3kevkl3pdo)

How the High Street became a window on our political instability

UK during an operation last year. Research from the Centre for Cities points to Cambridge, York, Edinburgh and Manchester as relative success stories. But this reflects another problem: inequality, because it tends to be places

What an empty car park tells us about the UK's debt problem

Street, which has seen four shops close in as many months, mean that local community radio station Sheppey FM is struggling for money. Founded in 2012, its ethos is to provide opportunities to local disadvantaged

The rape case that became one of Britain’s greatest miscarriages of justice

streets alone for about five miles when she was honked at, wolf-whistled and was so frightened she hid for a while in undergrowth. “I’m so scared,” she texted her sleeping boyfriend