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Cocaine being smuggled to UK via sea drops, Border Force warns

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South American drug gangs are dropping cocaine in the sea around the UK to be picked up by smaller boats and brought to shore.

Tens of millions of pounds worth of drugs are being wrapped in flotation devices equipped with trackers.

The sophisticated method of smuggling large quantities of the drug into the UK has become a "significant and persistent threat" Four British men were arrested after picking up a tonne of cocaine, with a street value of 100 m, near the Isles of Scilly .

VR Score

75

Informative language

70

Neutral language

75

Article tone

formal

Language

English

Language complexity

46

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possibly offensive

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not hateful

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short-lived

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