HISTORICAL FACTS: 45 - The Untold Story

Man, 38, found dead in hotel room shortly after receiving eviction notice

The mum of Stuart Swales told an inquest that she had pleaded with him to get help for his heroin addiction

Manchester Evening News · Jul 21, 2022

Wednesday's headlines: Heatwave causes train delays and Scots man takes own life

Here are the main headlines on the Daily Record website today.

Daily Record · Jul 20, 2022

Drugs ring flooding deprived town with crack and heroin dismantled

Blackpool has the worst rate of deaths from drug misuse in the country

Liverpool Echo · Jul 20, 2022

37 Greater Manchester drug dealers locked up and off our streets for selling heroin, cocaine and crystal meth

They were all jailed for flooding communities with drugs

Manchester Evening News · Jul 17, 2022

Prison drug dealers send secret code to inmates using playing cards on cell door

Prison officers at HMP Hewell finally crack code that tells drug users if their dealer has cannabis, cocaine, heroin or spice to sell after spotting playing cards in their cell door windows

Daily Mirror · Jul 16, 2022

Dealer and girlfriend who took luxury holidays to Thailand ordered to pay back thousands

Christopher Williams made over £100,000 flooding a small town with heroin and and crack as him and his girlfriend lived luxury lifestyles

Liverpool Echo · Jul 16, 2022

Drugs gang leader who splashed cash on luxury beach holiday with money-laundering girlfriend ordered to pay back £25k

Living the high life: As his foot soldiers flooded the streets with heroin, their leader soaked up the sun in a villa in Thailand

Manchester Evening News · Jul 16, 2022

Baby boy had methadone and cocaine in his tiny body when he died at home

One-year-old Jackson Curtis Howell was found unresponsive by his mum after he fell asleep while his dad ate cornflakes

Irish Mirror · Jul 16, 2022

Baby boy, one, had methadone and cocaine in his tiny body when he died, inquest hears

Jackson Curtis Howell died in 2017 after being rushed to hospital when he was found "grey" and unresponsive by his mother and father, an inquest held into his death has heard

Daily Mirror · Jul 15, 2022

Baby boy who died after swallowing methadone also had traces of cocaine in body

Jackson Curtis was found unresponsive after swallowing the heroin-substitute at his family home

Daily Record · Jul 15, 2022