Police seize drugs worth £520,000 after two major operations

Police have seized drugs worth more than half a million pounds after two major operations in Lanarkshire.

A haul of drugs believed to be heroin, cocaine, cannabis, amphetamine and Valium with an estimated street value of £265,000 was discovered when officers acting on a warrant searched a house in Bellshill on Wednesday.

A five-figure sum of cash was also recovered.

Two men, aged 37 and 45, were arrested and were due to appear at Hamilton Sheriff Court on Friday.

A second warrant was executed yesterday at a house in Motherwell and drugs believed to be cannabis with a street value of £255,000 was found. No arrests were made.

The total value of the drugs seized in the two raids was around £520,000.

Sergeant Thomas Cairns said: “These highvalue recoveries show our commitment to detecting and disrupting the supply and production of drugs in Lanarkshire.

“We will continue to work to disrupt supply routes and protect those in our local communities who are affected by the illicit drug trade.”

Last week Nicola Sturgeon pledged £250m of new funding to tackle the “national disgrace” of drugs deaths in Scotland after figures showed 1,264 people died in 2019.

– the Black Watch memorial at the top of The Mound and the Greyfriars Bobby fountain at the southern end of George IV Bridge. Both are situated on busy corners where there are lots of pedestrians and traffic but they are in very prominent positions, which helps the whole architectural history of the city.”

Chic and his wife, Maidie Dickson, shot to fame in Scottish variety theatres, as The Tall Droll and The Small Doll, he was 6ft 3in and she just 4ft 11in.

She was a child star who made her debut at the Capital Theatre in Leith, aged four, in 1926. Maidie, who played accordion, went on the share the bill with Scottish music hall legends Sir Harry Lauder and Will Fyfe, who wrote the song I Belong To Glasgow.

Chic worked as an apprentice at the Kincaid Shipyard in Greenock. He met Maidie in 1944, when his mother Isabella gave her digs when she was appearing at the Empire Theatre.

Romance blossomed and Chic and Maidie married the following year at St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh. She convinced him to quit his apprenticeship and form a double act. He would sing, yodel and crack gags while she played the accordion and they would top the bill in theatres across the country.

In 1975, Maidie stepped back from showbusiness to run a hotel in Edinburgh. The couple later divorced but remained good friends. She died in 2010.

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