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A foreign driver has been arrested after more than four million cigarettes were found in a lorry at Dover.

Drugs with a street value of around £6.3 million have been found inside coffee machine boxes hidden in a Polish vehicle at the Port of Dover.

Officers discovered the haul of amphetamines and cannabis resin hidden in 34 boxes after stopping a Polish-registered lorry at Dover's eastern docks as it was on its way to Northampton.

The driver, Gracjan Marcin Zientara, 32, from Pila in north-western Poland, has been remanded in custody to appear in court next month.

A man has been remanded in custody charged with attempting to smuggle heroin with a street value of about £2m into the UK.

UK Border Agency officers in Dover found the Class A drug in 43 taped packages inside a Land Rover Freelander after it arrived on a ferry at the eastern docks from Dunkirk on Sunday evening.

The driver from Stockport, Cheshire pleaded not guilty to a charge of attempting to smuggle drugs into the UK when he appeared at Folkestone Magistrates' Court.

He is due to appear again at the Folkestone court on November 6.