A 48-year-old man has been charged after police seized 170 cannabis plants in Attleborough.

Officers from the Attleborough Safer Neighbourhood Team and protective services at Norfolk Police executed a drugs warrant on March 22 at an address in Whitehouse Lane. A range of small and mature cannabis plants were found in an outbuilding.

Paul Hammond, of Whitehouse Lane, Attleborough has been charged with producing a Class B drug and abstracting electricity without authority.

He has been released on bail and will appear at Norwich Magistrates' Court on Tuesday, June 28.