Drugs seized by police in raids

Drugs with a street value of more than £700,000 have been seized by police in Bedfordshire in five days.

Officers seized 3,468 cannabis plants worth about £650,000, 1.8kg of cocaine worth £70,300, 109.4g of crack worth about £2,200 and £250 of other drugs.

Five cannabis factories and two crack houses were closed with 10 arrests made during National Tackling Drugs Week, which ran from 19 to 23 May.

Officers also recovered about £3,000 worth of stolen property.

Det Supt Pete Buckingham, from Bedfordshire Police, said: "This sort of intensive activity shows we can make an impact on the organised crime groups by disrupting their activities by dismantling cannabis factories."