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Revealed: the Scottish legal high factory at the centre of a global trade

Legal party drugs, similar to the ones blamed for a spate of deaths across the UK, are being churned out in a Scottish factory in Ayrshire, a Sunday Herald investigation can reveal.

A firm called Herbal Essences Ltd is mass manufacturing the “legal high” known as Star Dust.

Last week 19-year-old Jordan Kiltie, from Ayr, died after taking a similar legal drug, thought to be mephedrone.