Police smash £1m-a-week drugs ring

POLICE have smashed a drugs gang that made £1million a week by running a cannabis distribution racket with a fleet of wholesale flower delivery vans.

A total of 14 people were held in raids at 35 addresses across London and the South-East in an operation involving four police forces.

At one lock-up in Kingston, Met detectives found £1million in cash. The gang distributed cannabis throughout the South-East after importing it from Holland hidden in the wholesale flower delivery containers.

Police seized 50 kilos of the drug yesterday but have already recovered about 1,000 kilos in previous raids.

●Two men have been arrested after a police raid on a barber's shop in Finsbury Park suspected of being a crystal meth factory.