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A gang has been convicted after trying to smuggle cocaine with a street value of about £200m into the UK inside a shipment of bananas from South America.
A long-running court process has ended allowing the BBC to reveal how police cracked the case - believed to be one of the biggest drug seizures ever seen in the UK - and how undercover officers posed as lorry drivers to foil the gang in February 2021.

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We are now in the era of weight-loss drugs.
Decisions on how these drugs will be used look likely to shape our future health and even what our society might look like. And, as researchers are finding, they are already toppling the belief that obesity is simply a moral failing of the weak-willed. Weight-loss drugs are already at the heart of the national debate. This week, the new Labour government suggested they could be a tool to help obese people in England off benefits and back into work. That announcement - and the reaction to it - has held a mirror up to our own personal opinions around obesity and what should be done to tackle it.
Here are some questions I’d like you to ponder.
Is obesity something that people bring on themselves and they just need to make better life choices? Or is it a societal failing with millions of victims that needs stronger laws to control the types of food we eat?
Are effective weight-loss drugs the sensible choice in an obesity crisis? Are they being used as a convenient excuse to duck the big issue of why so many people are overweight in the first place? Personal choice v nanny state; realism v idealism – there are few medical conditions that stir up such heated debate.

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