'Got some good weed, bro': The street near Manchester city centre where you get offered drugs in minutes
I’ve been on Bury New Road for less than five minutes when I’m approached by someone offering me drugs. I’m minding my own business, sauntering along in the early afternoon sun, when a lad in a black tracksuit accosts me out of nowhere.
He wants to know if I have any cash on me. I explain that I don’t but say I’m meeting a friend who can lend me some. In recent months, a huge police crackdown has seen dozens of warehouses and shops shut, more than one hundred arrests made, and millions of pounds of fake goods seized from Manchester's 'Counterfeit Street'.
But when the Manchester Evening News visited the area this week, it still appeared to be business as usual for some. On the next street corner, 'spotters' lingered on the look-out for police officers. The trade in fake merchandise and illicit prescription drugs may not be as widespread or brazen as it once was in the city centre's shabby gateway, but it still exists - for now.
While they may have had success in getting rid of many counterfeit shops, officers acknowledge there is still work to be done to stamp out crime in the area.
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