Article: Police clear marijuana factory in estate house.

DRUG producers in Northamptonshire have been dealt another blow after police officers uncovered a cannabis factory capable of turning over almost [pounds sterling]10,000 worth of the substance each week.

The unexpected find came following a tip-off from a member of the public who reported seeing suspicious activity in a four-bedroom, semi-detatched house on the Grange estate in Daventry.

Late in the evening on Wednesday, officers from Northamptonshire Police's Supply Reduction Team (SRT) raided the property and discovered about 150 cannabis plants, in varying degrees of development.

At the scene in The Stour yesterday, a spokesman for the SRT ...

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