Drugs officers in dawn raids

Twenty-five people were arrested on suspicion of supplying class A drugs after dawn raids across Stoke-on-Trent involving more than 250 officers.

Police moved in shortly after 0530 BST on Tuesday, visiting about 20 addresses across the city.

Six women and 19 men were arrested, 23 of them in Stoke-on-Trent, one in Derby and one in Crewe.

A Staffordshire Police spokesman said "several" of them had been charged and that more charges were expected to follow.

Officers were drafted in from all over Staffordshire, including specialist search and entry teams and sniffer dog handlers.

The spokesman said that five further arrests were made.