Although Burns was commissioned as an Excise man on 14 July 1788 ... Wives and weans' had certainly been much on the novice customs officer's mind.

Unfortunately, their plans to turn a little wine into the first recorded rhubarb brandy come unstuck when a Customs and Excise officer by the name of Baines moves into the house on the other side of ...

The factory contained all the equipment needed to produce thousands of cigarettes A gang that ran what could be the UK's largest illegal ... according to customs officers. The operation was ...