PSNI make drug seizure in Antrim

Police in Co. Antrim have seized around £500,000 (€568,000) worth of drugs.

Police in Co. Antrim have seized around £500,000 (€568,000) worth of drugs.

BZP pills, which are also known as legal highs, were discovered in a storage facility in Ballymena close to the town's Showgrounds last night.

The drugs - which replicate the effect of ecstasy - are legal but the British Home Office plans to ban them by the end of the year.

No arrests have been made.

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