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The men, including one from Derby, are held after drugs were found in a shipping container

Four men have been arrested after a "massive haul" of cocaine with a street value of about £140m was seized by the National Crime Agency .

Border Force officers discovered the drugs in sacks in a container at the Port of Felixstowe, Suffolk, in August. Two men, aged 67 and 48, from Chorley, Lancashire, a 39-year-old, from Bolton, Greater Manchester and a 40-year-old, from Derby, remain in police custody.The NCA said officers also conducted searches of the suspects' homes and a number of business premises in Derby, Chorley and Standish in Wigan."The NCA has been working intensely to identify and pursue those responsible.

"There's no doubt these drugs would have been sold on into communities across the UK in such ways as county lines fuelling further crime and misery."

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