500 cannabis plants found in house

Up to 500 cannabis plants worth more than £100,000 were discovered in a seemingly normal house in a leafy area of Stourbridge.

From the outside, Stapenhill Lodge, with its landscaped lawn and private drive, looks like every other home in Prestwood Drive, Stourton.

But when police raided the property they found a cannabis factory inside containing between 400 and 500 plants, many of them fully grown.

There was also specialist hydraulic and ventilation equipment as well as dozens of plant pots and bags of compost.

Staffordshire Police swooped on the house, near Wollaston Lawn Tennis Club, at around 8am yesterday acting on a tip-off from a member of the public.