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Part one of a five-part special investigation into county lines drug dealing, running in audio, video, print and digital from The Times and The Sunday Times.
Today we reveal how police took down the family controlling the drug trade in one British city, creating a power vacuum that was filled by a new breed of violent, criminal operation - county lines.
The Sunday Times' northern editor David Collins is given unprecedented access to North Yorkshire Police as they fight back against the drug gangs.
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Read more: Exposed: how drug gangs deal without fear as the law can’t keep up | I was a county lines drug runner. I tried to quit, then I was stabbed
Watch: School-age kingpins: why children now hold the key to county lines
Host: David Collins
Producers: Kate Lamble, Taryn Siegel
Executive producers: Tim Walklate, Dan Box
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Photo: Getty Images.
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After years in hiding, The Sunday Times has obtained images of Christy and Daniel Kinahan, leaders of the all-powerful Kinahan cartel, living freely in Dubai. They are some of the most wanted criminals in the world. So why aren’t they in custody?
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Guest: John Mooney, Investigative reporter, The Sunday Times.
Host: Luke Jones.
Producer: Taryn Siegel.
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Read more: The world is looking for the Kinahan drug lords. We found them
Further listening: Gourmet gangster: Could Kinahan be caught by his Google reviews?
Clips: 971 FC, Irish Gangland, FM Boxing, Storyful.
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What began as an evening out at a nightclubin Kent has rapidly spiralled into a "super-spreader" event that has left doctors stunned and two young people dead. This surge in Meningitis B cases has triggered a public health alert, leaving the UK scrambling as private vaccine supplies run dry. So how can the authorities contain this unprecedented outbreak?
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Guests:
Host: Manveen Rana.
Producers: Julia Webster, Callum Martin, Olivia Case.
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Read more:
Meningitis B outbreak: six cases after Kent superspreader event.
Meningitis started with a headache. Then the blinding pain began.
What causes meningitis? Symptoms and how the infection spreads.
Further listening: Inside the world of "Looksmaxxing"
Clips: Sky
Photo: Denise Kelly, Getty Images.
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On Monday, Israel announced it's preparing a ground offensive into Lebanon. Fighting between the Israeli military and Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy group, has ratcheted up since the death of Iran’s supreme leader more than two weeks ago. Over 900 people have been killed in Lebanon and nearly one million are displaced. Will Israel’s new campaign bring a quicker end to the fighting? Or prolong a war which is already spiralling out of control?
This episode contains graphic descriptions that some listeners may find distressing.
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Guests:
Host: Manveen Rana.
Producers: Micaela Arneson, Julia Webster.
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Read more: IDF prepares for Lebanon offensive: ‘We don’t know how this ends’
Further listening: The Gulf's moment of truth - reshaping the Middle East
Clips: IDF via @NationalDefence Youtube.
Photo: Getty Images.
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The war in the Middle East has now entered its third week and shows no sign of ending any time soon. Oil prices have soared and transatlantic relations between the US and its allies are strained. So what are President Trump's options now? And will the Europeans support him in policing the strategically important Strait of Hormuz?
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Guest: George Grylls, Washington Correspondent, The Times.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Producers: Olivia Case and Harry Stott.
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Read more: Starmer resists Trump’s call to send warships to Strait of Hormuz
Further listening: Is Cuba next?
Clips: Fox, The White House, STV, The Times, Euronews, Keir Starmer / YouTube, WSJ, C-SPAN, DRM News International / YouTube.
Photo: Getty Images, The Times' Senior Digtal Designer Shaun Parkinson.
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Throughout Cuba, fuel shortages, blackouts, and food scarcity have become the norm. Since the US intervention in Venezuela in January, the oil lifeline into Cuba has all but dried up. Trump is now claiming that Cuba is on the brink of collapse. As the war in Iran rages on unabated – is this American neighbour his next target?
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Guest:
Host: Rosie Wright.
Producers: Sophie McNulty & Micaela Arneson.
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Further reading: Cubans await Trump’s next move: ‘Would the Americans bomb us?’
Further listening:Drugs, oil and power: what Trump is doing with Venezuela
Clips: AP, DRM News, News Nation, Onyx Media, Archivo DiFilm, APT.
Photo: Getty Images.
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From the shadowy corners of incel forums, a new obsession was quietly emerging. To succeed, financially, socially and sexually, you need to level up your face and frame. Enter “Looksmaxxing”, the idea that how you look can be engineered to perfection to maximise your full aesthetic potential. It's a TikTok-fuelled culture of mogging, "bone-smashing", and glow-ups - and a way for young men to measure beauty, status, and self-worth. How far will some go to “max” their looks? Is it vanity, or a survival strategy in a hyper-visual world? And what does it reveal about the state of men’s mental health today?
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Host: Rosie Wright
Guest: Jack Burke, times contributor.
Producer: Dave Creasey
Read more: Looksmaxxing: the worrying new extreme teenage trend
Image: Getty Images
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In 1938, Catherine Duleep Singh, goddaughter of Queen Victoria and daughter of the last Maharajah of Punjab, personally secured the escape of Jewish families to Britain, saving them from the Holocaust. Her story didn’t end there, she became a prominent suffragette, fighting for women’s rights while navigating life in exile. We explore her remarkable courage, activism, and the lives she forever changed.
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Read by: Jack Blackburn, history correspondent for The Times.
Producer: Dave Creasey
Read more: Last princess of Punjab who saved families from the Holocaust
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Peter Mandelson’s disastrous few months continue apace, after the government released a tranche of documents that tell us a lot about his hiring - and firing - as ambassador to the US. So what’s in the files? And what does it all say about the judgment of the Prime Minister?
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Guest: Aubrey Allegretti, chief political correspondent, The Times.
Host: Rosie Wright.
Producers: Harry Stott, Micaela Arneson.
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Read more: Peter Mandelson files: flawed vetting, ‘risk’ and other revelations
Mandelson files expose Keir Starmer — and it’s just the beginning
Further listening: Mandelson, Epstein and the fight for survival at No 10
Clips: Guardian News, AFP News Agency, Sky News, Diario AS.
Photo: Getty Images.
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As Iran continues to attack its Gulf neighbours could the strikes turn into a wider war? Who might be drawn in? And with Iran hitting friends as well as foes, how will this war reshape the Middle East and its relationship with the US?
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Guests:
Host: Manveen Rana.
Producers: Olivia Case and Harry Stott.
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Read more: Iran latest: Trump says war could end soon as ‘nothing left to target’
Further listening: Iran has a new leader - how long will he last?
Clips: Al Jazeera.
Photo: Getty Images.
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