UK police smash 45-country child-porn ring

LONDON, (Reuters) – One of Britain’s smallest police  forces has smashed an international child pornography network  stretching across 45 countries that was operated from a hamlet  in rural Lincolnshire, officers said yesterday.

Lincolnshire Police said it led a team of other agencies to  uncover a UK-based “news service” website offering more than  1,300 suspected paedophiles millions of indecent images of  children from a server operated in the hamlet of Martin Dales.

Four men pleaded guilty yesterday to a number of charges  relating to the distribution and possession of indecent