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UK town has so many cannabis farms residents are suffering daily power cuts

UK town has so many cannabis farms residents are suffering daily power cuts

In three months, police have shut down 61 cannabis farms in Rotherham Residents in Rotherham are experiencing regular power cuts because drug dealers are stealing energy for their cannabis farms. Since October 2021, police have shut down 61 farms and seized 6,797 plants with an estimated street value of £6.8m in the South Yorkshire town. […]

4 years ago

Afghan boy, 5, ‘falls to death in Sheffield days after fleeing Taliban’

Afghan boy, 5, ‘falls to death in Sheffield days after fleeing Taliban’

The boy was said to be looking out of a ninth-floor window at the OYO Metropolitan Hotel when the accident happened A five-year-old boy who fell to his death from a hotel window in Sheffield on Wednesday is thought to have been an Afghan refugee whose family fled the Taliban just days ago. The boy […]

5 years ago