Wales 'at risk' from customs cuts

Job cuts in the customs service will leave Wales at greater risk from drug smugglers and terrorists, it is claimed.

The dangers of illegal meat imports were also highlighted at the Royal Welsh Show by the Farmers' Union of Wales and the union representing customs officers.

At the show, at Llanelwedd, near Builth Wells, he joined FUW president Gareth Vaughan and Adam Mathews, of the Bushmeat Campaign, to stress the dangers of illegal meat imports as well as drugs.

"Drug gangs will simply use Wales as a back door through which to smuggle drugs," he said. "In addition, there are terrorist threats from links with Ireland."