YET another cannabis farm is discovered when police raid a house in Great Lever in one of Bolton’s unwanted “success” stories.
It seems that every other week this, literally, growing industry reveals yet another ordinary property as a place where a sophisticated set-up is nurturing thousands of cannabis plants.
As this process always seems to demand a huge amount of power for warming lights and even fans to dispel the pungent smell, I still don’t understand why it can’t be tracked through the National Grid.
During the Euro championship football matches, they always seem able to tell us how many millions of people boil up the kettle for a cuppa at half-time yet unnaturally large amounts of domestic electricity can’t be spotted. Surely technology could be employed to winkle out such illegal ventures?