£7m heroin haul at Dover

DOVER - Customs officers at the south eastern English port of Dover seized heroin worth £7 million yesterday when it arrived …

DOVER - Customs officers at the south eastern English port of Dover seized heroin worth £7 million yesterday when it arrived on a lorry carrying pottery. The Turkish driver of the lorry was being questioned, a customs spokesman said early this morning, but gave no further details of the drugs haul.

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