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High street drug dealer sells cannabis to undercover reporter

Since filming, two people have been arrested on suspicion of supplying drugs through shops in the West Midlands, police say.

West Midlands Police did not release the names of those arrested and did not indicate if they are linked to the BBC's investigation into mini-marts.

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