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The couple who foiled New Zealand’s biggest drugs plot

An ordinary couple foiled the country's biggest drugs deal, all by doing a good deed. It involves a boat, a fake funeral at sea and the criminal underworld's least able seamen.That ordinary couple of 35 years, Ed and Heather we're calling them to protect their identities, lived a ...  Show more

I bought Macclesfield FC while drunk and it saved my life

Rob Smethurst bought a bankrupt football club while his life was unravelling – then they went on to make football history and save him in the process.Entrepreneur Rob Smethurst never planned to become the owner of a football club. In the grip of alcohol addiction, and on a four-d ...  Show more

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