Two drug dealers from Bury have been jailed after £1m of MDMA was uncovered when police intercepted a service station deal.

Charles Hendrie, 30, and Leah Parkes, 28, both of Prospect Place, Bury, were locked up for 10 years and seven years respectively after being found guilty conspiracy to supply class A drugs at an earlier hearing.

The pair used the Holiday Inn Express at J13 of the M6 in Stafford as a meeting place to exchange large quantities of the ecstasy-style drug with Adib Asfour, 26, from Wolverhampton.

After checking in to the hotel and carrying out a deal they were found with 16 packages of MDMA in a suitcase in the back of their car as they headed back to Greater Manchester.

A further 19 packages were found in the hotel room.

Asfour - who was jailed for 10 years - was later found to have also left the hotel with a large quantity of drugs in a shoulder bag.

DC Simon Bowden, of Staffordshire Police, said: “Although the defendants do not live in Staffordshire they used the area as a central meeting point to exchange, and deal, a large quantity of MDMA.”