High Street crime unit targets fancy dress shops fronting possible illegal activities

The government has begun an investigative into fancy dress shops run by moustachioed, fez-wearing shopkeepers.

An undercover operative, wearing a black lounge suit and bowler hat, left a house at 52 Festive Road, London, and visited a fancy-dress costume shop where he was invited to try on different outfits. He then left the shop, not by the front door, but through a 'magic' door at the back of the changing room and had adventures appropriate to his costume. When he returned to his normal life, he was often left with a small souvenir believed to be drugs, or an infectious disease. 

Officers would like to question the shop keeper but, as if by magic, he has disappeared.

The unit is also looking into a rental shop, believed to have 'ghost' directors, that is responsible for animal cruelty to a pantomime horse, and be harbouring a Russian national accused of spying named in documents as Miss Nadia Popov.

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People smugglers offer to get people out of the country if Reform win the next election

An undercover Newsbiscuit investigation has found UK-registered firms offering 'package deals' to get people abroad if Farage should get into power.

'Travel Agents' are directing people to pay for trips at high street shops all over the country. An undercover researcher was told nearly £3,000 in cash could be deposited with them to secure a plane on a plane or ferry across the channel and "get away from it all".

"You put your money here. If your friends leave the UK, they won't want to come back," we were told.

Our three-month investigation gives insight into how these groups appear to be using UK companies' bank accounts to facilitate journeys - something a leading travel expert Simon Calder from The Independent told us is no surprise at all.

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Andy Burnham will be same as Starmer, but Northern—which is worse

The fear within the Labour Party is that they will be replacing one horrendous human being with an exact copy, but this time with an unlimited supply of tea. So far Burnham's policies are to carry on as normal, but greet every human, animal, and lamppost with 'alright, love?'.

In a tailored speech Burnham denied this, as his brass band struck up, and he threw his flat cap into the crowd. He insisted that he would face the economic challenges—coatless. However, a bit like 'Wonderwall', his northern credentials are so overplayed that everyone is sick of them. His spokeswoman added. 'Andy is not a Northern stereo-type, he is his own man…now please pass the gravy.'

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