Seven kilos of cocaine, worth more than a quarter of a million pounds, have been seized at Dover.

Officers from the UK Border Agency made the discovery on Saturday while searching a lorry carrying fork lift trucks and hammers which arrived at Dover’s Eastern Docks from Calais.

The cocaine, worth £280,000, was found in a cardboard box on one of the fork lift trucks, and four grammes of amphetamine sulphate, worth £40, was found in the lorry cab.

Craig Wardleworth, of Brigsteer Close, Accrington was charged with attempting to smuggle drugs into the UK and was released on bail. He is due to appear before Dover Magistrates on Thursday, May 22..

Inquiries are continuing.