FOUR HELD AFTER £1M DRUG SWOOP

Cannabis farm found in derelict nightclub raid

- BY JOHN DINGWALL

FOUR men have been arrested after a £1million cannabis farm was found at a former city nightclub.

Police raided the former Pearl Lounge, on Dee Street in Aberdeen, and found what is thought to bea significant cultivation.

The four men, aged between 30 and 40, were arrested.

The building, a former church, housed the Pearl Lounge Nightclub for years. It was closed in 2014 and has lain empty since.

A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: “At 9.30am on August 22, a cannabis cultivation was discovered at a vacant premises. Inquiries are ongoing”