Patrick Clahane and Rebecca Wearn BBC News BBC It's pitch black and we're crawling along a secret underground tunnel beneath a high street in Hull. We pass rotting beams propped up precariously by stacked breeze blocks. A rusty car jack is helping prevent the shop floor above from falling in. Through the rubble, we follow a Trading Standards Officer, his torch swinging back and forth in the darkness until it rests on a hidden stash of thousands of illegal cigarettes.

8 hours agoShareSaveNalini Sivathasan, Patrick Clahane & Debula KemoliBBC News Investigations & Africa EyeShareSaveTikTok is profiting from sexual livestreams performed by teens as young as 15, the BBC has been told. We spoke to three women in Kenya who said they began this activity as teenagers. They told us they used TikTok to openly advertise and negotiate payment for more explicit content that would be sent via other messaging platforms. TikTok bans solicitation but the company knows it takes place, moderators have told the BBC. TikTok takes a cut of about 70% from all livestream transactions, we have previously found. TikTok told the BBC it has "zero tolerance for exploitation". Livestreams from Kenya are popular on TikTok - each night over the course of a week, we found up to a dozen in which women performers danced suggestively, watched by hundreds of people around the world. Warning: Contains details of a sexual nature A blurred screenshot of a TikTok livestream - some performe..

Projects are being progressed to significantly improve pedestrian access at two tourism landmarks in North Clare. The West Clare Municipal District has confirmed its progressing plans for infrastructure connecting Clahane to Liscannor Village and for a development linking O’Donoghues Pub. Fanore National School and Fanore Beach. It’s after the MD was awarded €80,000 in funding […] The post Pedestrian Link To Be Developed From Clahane To Liscannor Village appeared first on Clare FM.

Ed Thomas,UK editor, Patrick Clahane and Rebecca Wearn Watch: BBC News go undercover to film "Shaxawan" A man at the centre of an organised crime network has been secretly filmed telling BBC undercover reporters how he can help to erase fines of up to £60,000 for employing illegal workers. The self-described "accountant" is among a group of Kurdish men, first exposed in…

Ed Thomas,UK editor, Patrick Clahane and Rebecca Wearn Watch: BBC's Ed Thomas confronts Surchi of the Top Store mini-mart in Crewe A Kurdish crime network is enabling migrants to work illegally in mini-marts on High Streets the length of Britain, a BBC investigation can reveal. The fake company directors are paid to put their names to official paperwork, and have dozens of businesses listed on Companies House, but are not involved in running them.