MORE than 440 cannabis plants were seized during a drugs raid on two houses in Westcliff.

Three people were arrested after police raided the two addresses off London Road, on Thursday morning.

Police discovered an established drugs factory, with 267 mature plants and 176 seedlings in the first house and an empty factory at the second address.

A 39-year-old man and two women, aged 34 and 36, were arrested on suspicion of producing and supplying cannabis and abstracting electricty.

They have been bailed until June 25 while police continue their investigations.

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