Ecstasy, ketamine and more than 200 canisters of laughing gas have been discovered buried in the grounds of the Creamfields festival site.
Up to 80,000 ravers are set to descend on Daresbury in Cheshire this week for the four-day music festival.
Ahead of the festival’s opening on Thursday, police searched the grounds as part of ‘disruption work’, trying to stop ‘brazen’ revellers from burying drugs ahead of the event.
In a week of searches, specialist officers uncovered 204 canisters of nitrous oxide as well as large bags containing ecstasy, MDMA and ketamine tablets.
Cheshire Police said it would continue the searches in the run-up to
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