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From The Times and The Sunday Times, this is the story.
It's just gone 6 am,
and a group of police officers have pulled up to an estate west of Bradford's city centre.
They're in stab vests and wearing evidence collection gloves, moving quietly through the darkness —
or as quiet as 20 police officers can.
Radios turn down, hoping the person they're heading to arrest won't be alerted.
The officers gather in the front garden, and then the quiet turns to noise.
A ripsaw tears through the centre of the plastic front door.
People inside are understandably terrified.
But an arrest is made.
The man handcuffed and led to a waiting van had, for the past year,
controlled a significant chunk of the crack cocaine and heroin market in York, a city more than 40 miles away.
Coordinating the sale of Class A drugs through what's known as a "county line."
There are more than 6,000 across the UK, a business police believe has caused an explosion of violence.
I think for me personally, I've just come back to York,