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Police have arrested two men after carrying out search warrants at three Gateshead homes this week.

On Monday, January 23, a warrant was executed at Pleasant Place in Birtley and 23 mature cannabis plants were recovered at the address.

A 40-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of cultivating cannabis plants and has been bailed pending further enquiries.

Over £40,000 worth of cannabis was seized as police raided four addresses in Skelmersdale.

Warrants were executed at properties on Elswick, Abbeywood, Blythewood and Fairstead on Thursday 19 January and Friday 20 January.

At the Fairstead address over 100 cannabis plants - with an estimated street value of £40,000 - were seized.

Police in Hackney borough have seized 270 kilos of cannabis with a street value of more than one million pounds.

At 15:00hrs on Monday, 9 January uniformed officers attended an underground car park in Crondall Street, N1 following concerns from a member of the public.

Police have seized cannabis plants during a search of premises in the Dundrum Road area of Newcastle yesterday, Sunday 1st January.

Officers entered a property and discovered a cannabis factory with approximately four hundred plants of differing sizes.

Surrey Police is continuing to crackdown on the supply and use of illegal drugs in the county following the discovery of a cannabis factory in the Park Barn area of Guildford.

Officers executed a warrant under the Misuse of Drugs Act at a detached property in the area on Wednesday (21 December) when a search uncovered more than 65 plants being grown in one of the bedrooms.

Thames Valley Police has released images of a cannabis factory found in a unit on a business park in Chesham, Buckinghamshire.

Officers attended the Waterside Business Park in Waterside at about 8.20pm on Friday (14/10), to investigate an unusually high electricity usage which had generated a large bill.

Police have seized around 50 cannabis plants, after a warrant was executed at an address in Sandymount Avenue, Bersted, Bognor, at around 1pm on Tuesday 18 October.

Sergeant Chris Pipkin said:

"Sussex Police will continue to act on intelligence they receive about the production of cannabis.

West Mercia Police has uncovered a sophisticated cannabis cultivation operation on an industrial estate near Kington.

Following local intelligence, officers from the Kington Local Policing Team executed a warrant at two units at the Arrow Court estate near the town yesterday morning (4 October).

Cannabis with an estimated street value of £40,000 was seized as police searched a property in Fulwood.

111plants - a mixture of young, immature plants and larger plants - were found at the terraced property on Brackenbury Road at around 10.15am today (Monday 3 October).

The plants were in the basement of the property along with a lighting and hydroponic set-up.

A cannabis farm has been discovered following reports of a burglary in South Tyneside.

At just before 10.50pm, on Thursday, September 15, police received a report of a possible burglary at a property on Laygate, South Shields.

Officers attended the scene where three men, two aged 36 and one aged 26, were detained and arrested on suspicion of burglary.

Officers were called to the property on Alexandra Road at around 11.58pm on Monday following a report of a break in at the address.

A number of discarded cannabis plants were found outside the premises and an operational support unit was then called upon to gain entry to the building.

Cannabis with an estimated street value of over £20,000 was seized as police raided a flat in Ashton.

A warrant was executed under the Misuse of Drugs Act on the first-floor property on Hull Street on the afternoon of Sunday 21 August.

16 mature plants that were ready to harvest were seized along with 36 smaller cannabis plants.

Police found giant cannabis plants at an address on Bridgwater Road near Bathpool on Wednesday August 15, 2011.

Officers had received information from the public about suspected cannabis plants being grown in the garden of the property.

Drugs Recovery - Coatbridge Officers from the Divisional Proactive Unit at Coatbridge have recovered drugs with an estimated value of £155,000.

Around 1515 hours on Monday 15 August 2011, officers attended at an industrial unit in Main Street, Coatbridge and found a cannabis factory containing over 300 plants, estimated to have a street value of £155,000.

The site, consisting of about 2,000 plants in varying stages of cultivation, was found by police at 3pm on Tuesday 2 August in a tunnel area behind the disused restaurant at White Rock.

They were found as a result of local reports of a smell of cannabis in the area.

Detective Sergeant Paul Sandeman said;