Police in Newmarket have arrested a man in his 40s and a teenager in connection with county lines drug offences.

After police conducted a welfare check at an address on Windsor Road in the town on November 12 at 5.30pm a man in his 40s and a teenage boy from London were arrested by officers from the West Scorpion team.

A knife and a package containing a quantity of wraps, believed to be Class A drugs worth in the region of £5000 were found in a search.

The man and the teenage boy were arrested on suspicion of drugs offences and taken to Bury St Edmunds police investigation centre where they remain for questioning.