Four million cigarettes have been found in a lorry at Dover’s Eastern Docks.

Border Agency officials stopped a Hungarian-registered lorry as it disembarked a ferry from Calais yesterday.

A search of the vehicle revealed 24 pallets being transported in the trailer of which two contained tissues and 22 contained cigarettes.

An estimated 4,400,000 cigarettes were seized. The revenue evaded on the goods was about £708,000.

The 35-year-old driver of the lorry, from Wekerle near Budapest was arrested and released on bail pending further enquiries.