Who says we never win anything? (Picture: Alamy)

London is the cocaine capital of Europe – beating off competition from Amsterdam to retain the questionable title.

And not only that, but experts say traces of the drug found in the capital’s sewers have increased in recent years.

Analysis showed the average daily concentration of coke in London sewers was 909mg per 1,000 people in 2015.

That was top of 60 European cities and towns surveyed, with Amsterdam trailing behind with 642mg per 1,000 people.


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London also finished top of the table in 2014, with 737mg – showing that the capital probably did more lines last year than the year before.



There’s more coke in our sewers than in any other city in Europe (Picture: PA)

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When only weekend samples were analysed, London’s figure rose further to 1044mg.

According to the study published by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, there has been a ‘stable picture’ of coke use in Europe.

However, London is one of the few cities that has seen an increase in levels of the Class A drug.

The study said: ‘Most cities show either a decreasing or a stable trend between 2011 and 2015, but in a few cases, in particular Brussels and London, an increase in BE (benzoylecgonine) loads was observed in this period.’

It also found that at least 3% of young adults in the UK use cocaine – with only two other European countries recording a figure so high.