TWELVE men have been charged with conspiracy to supply cocaine following dawn raids on addresses in Kent and London, Scotland Yard has revealed.

The men, aged between 28 and 50, are due to appear at West London Magistrates' Court today.

They were held following raids by more than 100 officers at 19 addresses in London and Kent on Wednesday.

The 12 accused suspects include a 50-year-old man from Maidstone and three men in their 30s from the Bromley area.

They are Ford Sexton, unemployed, of Lombardy Drive, Maidstone, Nicholas Johnson, unemployed of Seymour Drive, Bromley, Paul Collins, unemployed of Seymour Drive, Bromley, and Darren Taylor, unemployed, of Hayeswood Avenue, Bromley.

Specialist teams from the Metropolitan and Kent police forces were involved in the planned and synchronised raids, codenamed Operation Alpington.