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Metro
03-06-2025
- Health
- Metro
The drug behind double death that's '500 times more powerful than heroin'
Deadly blue and green pills which have killed two people in London have finally been identified. The pills, which are marked with the number '80' on one side and possibly 'OP' on the other, contained nitazenes which can be up to 500 times stronger than heroin. A 28-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman died in Southhall, west London, on May 26 after taking an 'illicit substance in the form of a green pill', Met Police said. The pair are believed to have visited a nightclub in south London, and their bodies were discovered the next day at a home in Ealing. One more person is said to have been hospitalised after taking the pill, and London nightclubs have urged people to stay away from the drug. The Cause, in east London, said: 'We have been made aware of dangerous Blue/Green Pills marked with an '80'. Blue or pale lips or fingertips Falling unconscious Loud raspy 'snoring' or gurgling Very light, shallow breathing or no breathing 'Testing indicates they contain N-Pyrrolidino isotonitazene (a potent synthetic opioid) and traces of Ketamine and MDMA. 'With several hospitalisations across multiple London venues, we strongly advise you don't engage with it and warn your friends. 'Look after yourselves. If you, any of your close ones or someone in the crowd feels unwell this weekend, speak to any member of staff immediately.' The pills are expected to have either been sold as oxycodone or ecstasy. Fabric, near the City of London, said: 'Tragically, two people have lost their lives and another has been hospitalised. 'They are believed to have been sold as oxycodone, but investigations are ongoing.' The Metropolitan Police confirmed no arrests have been made. Charity drug checker The Loop the drugs are often sold under the pretence they are oxycodone, which is a prescription painkiller, or ectasy pills. Ealing Council said: 'Please remember, there is no way of knowing what is in any pill or drug that is bought illegally, or how your body will react. 'If you, or anyone you are with, starts to feel unwell after taking any pill or drug, go to your nearest Accident and Emergency department or call 999. 'Always seek medical attention and do not try to sleep it off or drink lots of water.' Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@ For more stories like this, check our news page. MORE: Sainsbury's shoppers still losing millions of Nectar points in widespread scam MORE: 'Poisoned' beef wellington chef Erin Patterson tells murder trial exotic mushrooms 'have more flavour' MORE: Madeleine McCann police using radars to 'scour' trenches in fresh search after 'tip-off'
Metro
03-06-2025
- General
- Metro
Fears of drug '500 times stronger than heroin' in London after deaths
Deadly blue and green pills which have killed two people in London have finally been identified. The pills, which are marked with the number '80' on one side and possibly 'OP' on the other, contained nitazenes which can be up to 500 times stronger than heroin. A 28-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman died in Southhall, west London, on May 26 after taking an 'illicit substance in the form of a green pill', Met Police said. The pair are believed to have visited a nightclub in south London, and their bodies were discovered the next day at a home in Ealing. One more person is said to have been hospitalised after taking the pill, and London nightclubs have urged people to stay away from the drug. The Cause, in east London, said: 'We have been made aware of dangerous Blue/Green Pills marked with an '80'. Blue or pale lips or fingertips Falling unconscious Loud raspy 'snoring' or gurgling Very light, shallow breathing or no breathing 'Testing indicates they contain N-Pyrrolidino isotonitazene (a potent synthetic opioid) and traces of Ketamine and MDMA. 'With several hospitalisations across multiple London venues, we strongly advise you don't engage with it and warn your friends. 'Look after yourselves. If you, any of your close ones or someone in the crowd feels unwell this weekend, speak to any member of staff immediately.' The pills are expected to have either been sold as oxycodone or ecstasy. Fabric, near the City of London, said: 'Tragically, two people have lost their lives and another has been hospitalised. 'They are believed to have been sold as oxycodone, but investigations are ongoing.' The Metropolitan Police confirmed no arrests have been made. Charity drug checker The Loop the drugs are often sold under the pretence they are oxycodone, which is a prescription painkiller, or ectasy pills. Ealing Council said: 'Please remember, there is no way of knowing what is in any pill or drug that is bought illegally, or how your body will react. 'If you, or anyone you are with, starts to feel unwell after taking any pill or drug, go to your nearest Accident and Emergency department or call 999. 'Always seek medical attention and do not try to sleep it off or drink lots of water.' Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@ For more stories like this, check our news page. MORE: 'Poisoned' beef wellington chef Erin Patterson tells murder trial exotic mushrooms 'have more flavour' MORE: Madeleine McCann police using radars to 'scour' trenches in fresh search after 'tip-off' MORE: Should men give women seats on the Tube? Have your say
Evening Standard
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Evening Standard
GALA 2025 review: officially London's coolest dance music festival
Elsewhere, a slime-esque plastic installation floats in the air in the Cornerstone tent during Club Are's Saturday takeover, which is swapped for vinyl records and a disco ball on Sunday as local Hi-Fi institution JUMBI takes the reins. The Cause and Chapter 10 also host their own takeovers across the festival, proving that GALA's organisers have their fingers on the pulse when it comes to the who's who of the city's parties.
Express Tribune
28-04-2025
- Politics
- Express Tribune
Clash among IHC judges intensifies
Clash among Islamabad High Court (IHC) judges has intensified with Justice Babar Sattar stating that a division benchled by IHC Acting Chief Justice Sardar Muhammad Sarfraz Dogarhas no authority to suspend proceedings pending before a single bench and to "frustrate" proceedings. A single-member bench comprising Justice Sattar was hearing a case related to Department of Immigration and Passport. He had adjourned it till April 28 after its last hearing on March 26. The petition was however not listed for hearing on April 28 in the Regular Cause List. Justice Sattar on April 25 issued a direction to the IHC deputy registrar (judicial) on the administrative side that the matter be listed for hearing on April 28 by virtue of order dated March 26. The judge also directed that a supplementary cause list be issued to list the matter for hearing in compliance with the order dated March 26 "which had not been impugned before a court of competent jurisdiction and remained in the field". The deputy registrar, however, informed the bench through a note that an objection application had been filed before the Divisional Bench-I challenging the order of the single-member bench dated March 26. He noted that the division bench on March 26 admitted the appeal for regular hearing. It further ordered the registrar to club two other cases with the instant case. However, Justice Sattar on Monday conducted the hearing of the case and later issued an 8-page order, stating that his orders dated March 26 and March 12 were interlocutory in nature and final adjudication of the subjectmatter remains pending. He noted that the judges comprising division bench-1 were not assisted properly and competently when they were seized by ICA No 98 of 2025 that led to order dated March 26. "Had their attention been drawn to the settled legal propositions mentioned above, it is unthinkable that they would have summoned the record of this Court or otherwise issued any direction that would thwart or frustrate the proceedings pending before this Court in its constitutional jurisdiction. "It has been clarified by the Supreme Court in a number of recent cases that there also exists no administrative authority in the Office of the Chief Justice to interfere with a matter that is pending before a duly constituted bench that is seized of that matter and hearing it." The order said by not listing the petition for hearing on April 28, the deputy registrar (judicial) prima facie acted in breach of order dated March 26, which was never impugned and remains in the field. Meanwhile, The Lahore High Court Bar Association has submitted a rejoinder in the IHC judges' seniority case. A five-member constitutional bench of the Supreme Court will resume hearing of the case today.
Yahoo
21-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
A dereliction of duty in the Senate
Renter advocates gather in Annapolis to call on lawmakers to pass Good Cause Eviction legislation in February, but the bill never got out of the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee. (File photo by Danielle J. Brown/Maryland Matters). In what many are calling an astonishing dereliction of duty, the Maryland Senate's Judicial Proceeding Committee (JPR) failed to move 'Good-Cause' eviction legislation forward. Despite unprecedented statewide support, including a 96-37 vote in the House last year, JPR allowed amendments pushed by the landlord/developer (LL/D) industry tying the legislation to rent stabilization laws, and weakening good-cause standards, letting landlords arbitrarily and unjustly evict renters from their homes. The committee's first amendment would have required rent stabilization programs across Maryland to drop vacancy control from apartment homes. Vacancy control maintains rent levels for apartments when a tenant moves out. Vacancy decontrol lets rent float up to market rates, often to levels new tenants cannot afford. Affordable housing advocates adamantly oppose decontrol, pointing to the further loss of reasonably priced housing stocks. The second series of amendments would have knocked the teeth out of the good causes that would be required to justify nonrenewal of leases and the eventual eviction of a tenant who stays longer than the lease term, known as Tenant Holding Over (THO). Including minor violations of a lease or community rules, for example, as a justification to evict turns on its head the very principle of establishing a stated, substantial violation to justify forcing someone from their home. Maryland Matters welcomes guest commentary submissions at editor@ We suggest a 750-word limit and reserve the right to edit or reject submissions. We do not accept columns that are endorsements of candidates, and no longer accept submissions from elected officials or political candidates. Opinion pieces must be signed by at least one individual using their real name. We do not accept columns signed by an organization. Commentary writers must include a short bio and a photo for their bylines. Views of writers are their own. Consensus has been building for decades that stable, quality homes are central determinants of community health, welfare and prosperity. The idea that a rental apartment is a mere 'unit' no different than any commodity, like craft beer or concert tickets, has faded as the relationship of stable, quality housing to social welfare and prosperity has changed. Nearly 40% of Maryland residents now live in rental housing not as a station on the way to owning, but as permanent housing. It is no longer acceptable to destabilize whole communities with unpredictable and excessive rent increases that rely entirely on market potential, or to evict without good reason, without considering the social and economic costs to tenants and our communities. At least that's what we thought … But alongside modern thinking on housing policy that promotes affordability, and legislation to ensure stability, a counter narrative promoted by the rental housing industry and its well-financed network of lobbyists and bloggers has spawned, citing cherry-picked and distorted data. The narrative goes like this: Things like good-cause protections, rent stabilization or stronger code and rights enforcement might sound nice to uneducated renters and their advocates, but they don't really need them. What they really need is investment in building more housing so that market competition will eliminate the lack of affordability and disincentivize bad landlord behavior. They define the housing crisis solely as a 'shortage,' citing market demand for housing while ignoring the instability of existing residents' housing, and conveniently omitting discussion around when or how that demand might be met in specific markets. They say all we need to do is 'build our way out of the crisis.' Industry-friendly bloggers cite the building boom of the Sun Belt and how housing prices there have come down, not mentioning high vacancy rates and low demand in some of those cities. They cite the St. Paul, Minnesota, sample where new multifamily building slowed after rent stabilization passed — but fail to mention how, when the city went back and exempted new development long enough for investors to recoup their investment and make a profit, investment in multifamily housing continued at its hurried pace. Closer to home, the LL/D bloggers cite the lack of building in Takoma Park, citing rent stabilization as the cause. They don't mention the lack of land availability in Takoma Park, now understood to be a built-out community. Housing codes and renter protections were introduced decades ago to put an end to the squalor, instability and abuse past generations of tenants endured. Teachers, police, nurses, retail workers, immigrants, young families and now, an increasing number of senior citizens are no longer able to purchase a home in a housing market that places home ownership well out of their reach. Marylanders must ask why Senate Judicial Proceedings Chair Will Smith (D-Montgomery) and Senate President Bill Ferguson (D-Baltimore City) would give deference to these fallacious industry narratives that set up a false choice between renter protections and building more housing, rather than using every tool at their disposal to get this done for constituents demanding action — and facts. More than 5,000 Marylanders were evicted last year for THO, likely a tip-of-the-iceberg figure as it does not count those who move before going to court. Until our elected officials press them on just what that means, we will continue to see whole renter communities destabilized, while anger grows at those elected to represent them who failed to act.
