A CANNABIS farm the size of a football pitch has been uncovered by police who have revealed it has an estimated street value of more than £1 million. The drugs factory was uncovered by Northumbria Police officers on the Brunswick Industrial Estate in Newcastle on Thursday where nearly 1,500 plants were being grown and cultivated over two floors. Police said they had been tipped off to the huge farm by electricity contractors who had responded to an outage on the industrial estate. Officers were immediately deployed to investigate and promptly found a huge industrial unit had been converted in to a make-shift drugs operation.
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