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35,000 pints of stolen Guinness, 950 wheels of pilfered cheese: can the UK’s cargo theft crisis be stopped?

It costs the UK economy £700m a year, and criminal gangs are operating with near impunity. Every time a lorry gets robbed, raided or hijacked, it’s Mike Dawber who investigatesIn August 2021, Mike Dawber, the UK’s leading detective in cargo crime, got a call from...

The vape capital of Britain: how have two Manchester backstreets come to dominate the e-cigarette trade?

Clustered together in the area of Cheetham Hill are more than 50 shops specialising in vapes and vaping paraphernalia. How can they all make a living – and for how much longer?I meet Ali outside his tiny wholesale business, Fly Vape – the store name combined with the...