Huge cannabis farm worth more than £1million uncovered in Preston + Thunder and lightning captured by readers as overnight storms raged over Lancashire

Aug 11, 2020

Good afternoon,

Dawn broke this morning with a police raid and news officers had discovered a secret dividing wall and found a £1m cannabis farm stretching through nine rooms in Preston.

And it's clear many of you didn't get much sleep last night as storms raged through a decidedly sticky and uncomfortable night - our inbox was full of your videos of dramatic lightning scenes and thunderbolts.

Roads and trains in the county have also been impacted by localised flooding and a lot of fantastic work is underway to resolve any problems.

We continue to bring the latest on the Covid-19 situation and to try and help with any confusion we have answered all your big questions in Q&A format today.

Meanwhile we have reported the latest plans to give more power to local authorities over the test and trace system and reflected on the coronavirus story which saw us break a 10,000 case milestone in the county yesterday.

As always, reporter Stef Hall is sharing the latest from Preston's courts, including the man who failed to declare his second home. In Blackpool, a woman has been arrested in connection with a murder investigation.

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	Three arrested after huge cannabis farm worth more than £1million is uncovered in Preston

	Three men have been arrested after a cannabis farm worth more than £1million has been uncovered at an industrial site in Preston.

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