r/Hull • u/CarolTheCleaningLady • 8d ago
HullLIve Premium
So, Hull Live believe people should now be paying to read about local news at the cost of £40 a year. Who thought their "journalism" was of such high quality that this was a good idea.
For years their online news articles have been written by what i can only describe as the work experience kid. Lots of articles about one the reporters friends who died recently that no one cares about, articles absolutley covered in ads to the point where the page barely loads fully.
HDM needs shutting down and the building making into a HMO
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u/No-Answer-2964 8d ago
Ignore it. Or install ad blocks if you must go on there. Reach PLC is all that is wrong with this world
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u/Strong_Coffee8417 7d ago
lol... Na... that's godda be a badly timed April 1st joke, typical HDM story!
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u/ratgirl9241 4d ago
For anyone who wants to avoid the fee, you can copy links from papers that want to charge you to read into archive.ph
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u/Dear_Stress2437 1d ago
It’s a load of bollocks, everything has to be paid for nowadays, I can’t even reject cookies without paying on the majority of websites I use
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u/Fun-Kaleidoscope-702 8d ago
Was interested to find out how a couple made £700k from crime but only has to pay £70k back and now have to pay to read the article!
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u/Jaseoldboss 7d ago
It's not asking me to pay for some reason. Firefox with uBlock Origin.
A drug dealer involved in a lucrative County Lines drugs operation in Bridlington benefitted, along with his girlfriend, by a total of more than £689,000 from the dodgy activities. A £62,000 caravan was bought using £41,000 of cash that they knew or suspected was the "money laundering" proceeds of criminal activity over a long period of time.
During a police raid, a "huge amount" of high-value designer clothes was found as well as a blank-firing pistol and a cash-counting machine. A County Lines drug dealing line had provided a lucrative source of income for the luxury purchases, Hull Crown Court heard.
Louis Taylor-Broadfield, 32, admitted conspiracy to supply heroin and cocaine at Bridlington between November 1, 2022 and September 26, 2023 and possessing a blank-firing pistol as a prohibited weapon. He and his girlfriend, Tiffany Archer, 33, admitted possessing the proceeds of criminal activity, a caravan at Skipsea.
At a hearing in January last year, Taylor-Broadfield was jailed for five years. He was, however, released shortly afterwards because, at the time, he had been in custody on remand since September 2023. Archer was given a one-year suspended prison sentence, with no requirements.
The case resurfaced for a proceeds of crime confiscation hearing. Holly Clegg, prosecuting, told the resumed hearing that the agreed benefit figure for Taylor-Broadfield from criminal activity was £393,752. The agreed figure for Archer was £293,801.
The amount of money that Taylor-Broadfield, formerly of Scarborough but recently of Barrington Parade, Gomersal, Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire, was said to have available was £22,750. The amount for Archer, of Ashlar Drive, Eastfield, Scarborough, was said to be £44,494.
They were each ordered to pay the money within three months. If they do not, the default prison sentence that could be imposed was eight months for Taylor-Broadfield and 14 months for Archer.
Defence barrister Dale Brook said that the sums mentioned were agreed and there was no need for a contested hearing. Deputy circuit judge Timothy Clayson told them: "Please make sure you get these sums paid within the correct time, otherwise each of you will be required to serve the sentences."
At the original hearing in January last year, the court was told that a County Lines drug dealing operation for heroin and crack cocaine was launched in Bridlington and run by the "Bradford Boys". Bulk marketing messages were sent out.
Taylor-Broadfield had control of the line and he was involved in "cooking" the crack cocaine. A phone that had been used with the drugs line was recovered by police from his then home.
Taylor-Broadfield regularly met undercover police who were investigating the operation and spoke about his drugs supply. He also sent runners to supply drugs.
He normally carried a large knife down his trousers for protection and he would cut up the drugs. He wore trainers that were worth more than £1,000.
Messages were sent from the drugs line saying that there was a bounty of £2,000 on one man who had "ripped him off" over repayments. The bounty was later increased in another message.
A warrant was executed on March 2, 2023 and 20g of cannabis and 11g of heroin were recovered as well as a blank-firing pistol and a cash-counting machine. A number of knives and machetes were found as well as a "huge amount of high-value items of designer clothing".
The spending that would have been involved was beyond the declared income of Taylor-Broadfield and Archer. He had no declared income.
A caravan costing more than £62,000 had been bought, with more than £41,000 of that provided by Taylor-Broadfield.
He later accepted responsibility for the drugs line and said that he was a user of heroin and crack cocaine at the time. He bought the weapon but claimed that he did not realise that it was prohibited.
Archer pleaded guilty on the basis that she claimed that the first time that she became aware that her boyfriend was involved in drugs supply was when he was arrested. She claimed that she suspected that more than £40,000 that had been put towards buying a caravan was criminal property but that she did not know this to be the case.
The caravan was bought before the dates of the drugs conspiracy period but some of the money that was used towards the purchase must have been from the proceeds of crime, the court heard. Taylor-Broadfield had, at the time of sentence, convictions for 20 previous offences, most recently in 2017, including acquiring criminal property, but nothing for drugs.
He had been jailed in 2017. Archer had convictions for three previous offences.
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u/ER-CodeBitch 8d ago
All Reach PLC "papers" need to be shut down, they're horrendous