Cocaine seized at North Shields ferry terminal

The drug had been hidden in the lorry's trailer

Cocaine with an estimated street value of £9m has been seized at a port.

Border Force officers found 115 kilos of the drug in a lorry which arrived at the Port of Tyne, in North Shields, on a ferry from Amsterdam on Friday.

A 27-year-old Polish man, Rafal Chyl, of no fixed UK address, was charged with importing a Class A drug.

He remanded in custody after appearing at Newcastle Magistrates' Court earlier and was due to appear at the city's crown court on 22 November.