Nearly two dozen different types of knives are already banned in the UK, including swords that are not a part of a national uniform, switch blades, zombie knives, belt buckle knives or butterfly ...

Thugs commit hundreds of offences a month with zombie knives and machetes – six months after they were banned. More than 1,420 such crimes including robberies, assaults and sex attacks happened ...

There were zombie knives, machetes, switchblades and swords. Twenty-two-inch machetes cost £40 and 24-inch zombie knives were £50 - with new stock arriving soon. The seller was based in Walsall ...