Customs uncover vodka distillery
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HM Customs say it has  discovered a large distillery in Cardiff, capable of producing thousands of litres of vodka.
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Lithuanian border guards have unearthed a three-kilometer (2-mile) pipeline for smuggling in moonshine liquor from neighboring Belarus, the guards said on Friday.
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Coca-Cola's main Russian bottling  distributor has removed religious images from its drinks  refrigerators after a group of Russian Orthodox believers  accused it of blasphemy, a spokeswoman for the firm said on  Thursday.
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A favourite tipple among connoisseurs the world over, whisky is treated with almost religious reverence on the Hebridean island of Islay, home to seven of Scotland's single malt distilleries.
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Some 6,500 pints of alcohol were confiscated from under-18s during a police crackdown, the Home Office says.
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Bales of a record haul of cocaine spilled from a smuggling boat that capsized off the coast of Ireland are washing up on the shores of County Cork, officials said Tuesday.
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What clues does a blind vodka tasting hold for the EU as member states disagree on what raw ingredients should be allowed?
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MOSCOW, Nov 17 (IPS) - Russian authorities are searching for new solutions  to tackle alcoholism after reports started to emerge last month  that thousands of people may have died from consumption of the  popular home-made alcohol Samogon. Low-grade industrially  manufactured alcohol may have gone into the drink, according to  some reports.
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Importing cheaper drugs from up north isn't as simple as it seems
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It was quite an operation, the way it came together. In December 2002, U.S. Customs agents intercepted $8 million in counterfeit checks in two FedEx packages bound for Israel.
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Police have searched the Montreal headquarters of Imperial Tobacco Canada as part of an investigation into cigarette smuggling in the 1990s, the company says.
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An investigation is under way to discover how a banned antibotic is found in organic chicken processed in NI.
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The latest microtrend in upscale mixology â or at least in precious garnishes-has arrived.
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Officials say fake vodka from an illegal bottling plant could cause blindness and should not be drunk.
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CLEVELAND, Tenn. - Stolen: A cardboard likeness of President Bush and a bottle of Jack Daniel's whiskey.  Kevin Hair reported to police that he returned to his apartment Sunday and first noticed some furniture had been rearranged.
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The inventor of the world's most famous combat weapon has launched a vodka in Britain under his own name: Kalashnikov.
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Politics: 30 December 2004, Thursday. Sofia police have busted a crime gang of three men that blackmailed the mineral water bottling company Gorna Banya over the last year.