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5PM, RADIO 4 Drug-taking in the Home Counties and the UK countryside is on the increase. Children are being used to take the drugs from cities and ports to these rural areas – dealers use children as they are less likely to be searched or to have criminal records. These youngsters are paid in cash, and the drug gangs become a sort of family to them. Simon

Cox reports on the way children, teenagers and vulnerable people are being pulled into a life of crime.