Colombian cocaine worth £40 million discovered in banana shipment on Thames port

£40 million worth of cocaine found smuggled alongside bananas at London port (NCA/PA)

Cocaine worth £40 million has been discovered smuggled within a batch of bananas at a port on the Thames.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) said officers seized more than half a tonne of the Class A drug on a boat travelling from Colombia, at London Gateway on the Essex coast, south-east England.