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Has this former Devon seaside idyll become the crack cocaine capital of Britain? As locals beg for police to help, JANE FRYER visits a town ravaged by county lines drugs gangs, violent crime and feral teens

Daily Mail 1 min read 2 hours ago

By 8am on a Wednesday, a High Street in Devon is thick with marijuana. It comes from under the arches, where a tangle of bodies is beginning to stir from last night's drugs excesses
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