The best stories are often stranger and wilder than fiction. When our reporter Stephen Topping unveiled his plans for an investigation into fake weight-loss drugs being promoted on social media, both of us found ourselves repeatedly asking: can this possibly be real?

As we dug deeper it got ever stranger.

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Earlier this year we wrote about the dangerous sale of weight-loss drugs online. We revealed how for just £40 you could purchase drugs claiming to be Wegovy or Ozempic, both part of a class of drugs containing semaglutide, a prescription only medication in the UK.

It took just ten minutes to find someone willing to sell to us without asking any questions about age, medical history, or being given an

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