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A police bust found a cannabis farm worth hundreds of thousands of pounds at a Neath Port Talbot industrial estate.

South Wales Police’s Port Talbot response and neighbourhood policing team recovered around 420 plants at the address on the Kenfig Industrial Estate in Margam on Saturday.

The force believe the plants had a street value of more than £200,000.

Two men arrested in connection with the incident have since been charged with drug cultivation offences and remain in police custody.

Margam Councillor Rob Jones said he was pleased police had worked to stop the drugs getting onto the streets of Neath Port Talbot.

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“The misery that drugs spreads is appalling and I know this having worked in that area,” he said. “I have seen first hand what drugs can do to a person.

“It is never good when police are forced to carry out these sorts of raids, but what is positive is that the drugs are then no longer at risk of being sold to residents and making their way onto our streets.

“I am glad the police have acted in this manner.”

A spokesman for South Wales Police said: “Following a proactive search warrant executed on Saturday, May 6, Port Talbot response and neighbourhood policing teams recovered around 420 cannabis plants at an address on the Kenfig industrial estate, which had an approximate street value of more than £200,000.

“Two men who were arrested have been charged with drug cultivation offences and remanded.”