UK: Weapons and drugs haul discovery as Cheshire police probe rise in gangland crime

Detectives raided an address in Orford, Warrington, on Saturday and recovered the illegal hauls, leading to the arrest of a 30-year-old man.

The property, on Hume Street, is less than two miles from where a man was shot at a house in Poplars Avenue, 10 days ago.

The gunman fired bullets towards the address and the victim, 55, suffered wounds to his leg before being rushed to hospital.

It is also about a mile away from the scene where criminals left an improvised explosive device left in the garden of a home, on Birtles Road.