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Man held in Spain after drug bust

A man from Dundee is being held in Alicante after police seized more than 350kg of cannabis.

Brian Deans, 45, was arrested along with Dean Hinton, 41, from Northampton, at the small resort of Oliva, on south-east Spain's Costa Blanca.

The drugs discovered by detectives were worth just over £1m on the streets.

Police said the case was linked to an operation in July in which five tonnes of hashish worth £15m were seized in Alicante city.



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