Half a tonne of cocaine found hidden among bananas at Essex port

Drugs with street value of 40m found at Thames port on boat en route from Colombia to Netherlands

Cocaine worth 40m has been discovered smuggled within a batch of bananas at a port on the Thames.

Officers seized more than half a tonne of the class A drug on a boat travelling from Colombia, at London Gateway on the Essex coast, south-east England, the National Crime Agency said.