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National Crime Agency - A UK national law enforcement agency. It targets organised crime, trafficking, cybercrime and economic crime.
Blackmail - Demanding payment (or another action) from someone in return for not revealing damaging information about them.
Blight - A common plant disease, typically caused by fungi.
Gen Z - Short for Generation Z, meaning people born in the late 1990s and early 2000s.