Scotland politics

Lost your cocaine? Scottish police want a word

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Police on the Isle of Skye have issued a warning to a new year's reveller after finding a quantity of cocaine.

Officers on the island, on the west coast of Scotland, tweeted "we have it in the Police station #WeNeedAWord".

The alert from Lochaber and Skye Police has spread far and wide, racking up 3,500 retweets.

Online acclaim for the force tweeting its beat hails the approach as both "comedy gold" and "policing at its best."

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