POLICE seized more than £15,000 of drugs after a motorway spot-check on Tuesday. Officers recovered a large quantity of heroin and cannabis from a car after it was stopped on the M62 near Winwick.

A 50-year-old man from Liverpool was arrested by police and charged with possesion with intent to supply heroin, possesion of cannabis and the cultivation of cannabis. The man was due to appear before Warrington Magistrates' Court after the GUARDIAN went to press.

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