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Sixteen people have received prison sentences for transporting and selling class A drugs as part of a county lines operation in south-east England.The convictions follow a joint investigation by the Metropolitan and Kent police forces into five county lines supplying drugs in Berkshire, Hampshire, Kent, London, Surrey and Sussex.Many in the group,
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For those of us who are increasingly alarmed by the costs involved in defending libel actions and the phenomenon of libel tourism, here s an interesting piece of research from Ireland another country that libel tourists like to visit .Unlike Britain, where the main problem is about the size of legal costs rather than damages - which have gradually been reduced - the Irish courts appear to be bumping up awards to plaintiffs.According to the Dublin-based law firm McCann FitzGerald, over the
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