340 cannabis plants worth £15k found dumped on wasteground

Thousands of pounds' worth of cannabis plants were found dumped in by the side of a road. Around 340 plants, believed to be worth around £15,000, were discovered on a patch of wasteground in Chadderton, Oldham. Police were called to the area off Moston Road, near Greengate, around 9.30am today after a call from a member of the public who had spotted the plants. Officers arrived to discover hundreds of large cannabis plants, still in their plant pots, dumped in a pile. All the plants were bagged up to be removed from the scene [...] Officers are now carrying out inquiries in a bid to discover who dumped the plants - and why they were abandoned. No arrests have yet been made.