Police confiscated drugs worth more than £60,000 in raids on three properties in Boscombe on Tuesday afternoon.

Acting on a tip-off from neighbours, officers recovered herbal cannabis at a flat in Argyll Road, where a man and a woman were arrested on suspicion of possession of drugs and intent to supply.

After a search of the property turned up evidence of the origin of the drugs they raided a further flat in Windham Road, where cannabis plants were being cultivated in the kitchen.

Contraband cigarettes and some £60,000 worth of cannabis resin was confiscated. Further cigarettes were found in a lock-up in Truscott Avenue. A further man was arrested in Windham Road on suspicion of possession and intent to supply.

All three have been released on bail until January.