UK seaside town once dubbed 'like Magaluf' suffering from drug epidemic

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The reputation of the coastal area has plummeted in recent years

A once-bustling UK seaside town that many viewed as Britain's answer to party-hotspot Magaluf is now one of the country's worst drug areas. .

Police in Devon and Cornwall seized 18.7kg of cocaine in the year to March 2022, that figure was up from 16.2kg the year before. Ketamine seized rose from 0.3kg in 2021 to 1.8kg last year, according to statistics from the Home Office. "In those days people would often come out at 10pm or later, they’d be already drunk and wanting to party, and it would get quite messy. It was the party capital at that point and the streets were packed with groups of young people," he told The Sun.

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