{"id":711779,"date":"2026-07-26T09:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T09:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/711779\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T09:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T09:30:08","slug":"weekly-round-up-five-stories-from-the-south-you-may-have-missed-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/711779\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly round-up: Five stories from the South you may have missed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c89n7vkkpego\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eleven people have been convicted over a plot to smuggle \u00a340m cocaine into the UK<\/a> &#8211; which was dropped into the sea from a passing ship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">David Paterson, 49, sailed out from Haslar Marina, Portsmouth, into international waters off the Isle of Wight on 17 August 2024 to collect the 500kg consignment. He failed but Adil Nolan succeeded after setting out from Eastbourne Harbour the next day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Three men out of the 11 plotters were found guilty of conspiring to smuggle cocaine at a trial at Portsmouth Crown Court, while one woman was found guilty of assisting an organised crime group. Seven others previously admitted their roles, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They will be sentenced in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eleven people have been convicted over a plot to smuggle \u00a340m cocaine into the UK &#8211; which was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-711779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}