UK - How the Lancashire cotton town that was once a cradle of the Industrial Revolution is now terrorised by machete drug gangs

At the end of a timeworn street just north of Rochdale town centre sits a row of red-brick terraced houses, of which all but one appear indistinguishable. The exception bears a cluster of hi-tech security cameras that wouldn't look out of place in a bank, for instance, or a police station. And for good reason. What happened in this two-up, two-down was shocking but sadly typical of the feud then raging between rival organised crime groups (OCGs) that blighted this Greater Manchester town, a once proud textiles powerhouse. Last week, a court heard that at around 11.40pm on May 22,...