ILLEGAL drugs and firearms were seized when police raided two Darwen homes.

Officers swooped yesterday as part of a crackdown on drug dealing.

Several officers stormed a house off Blackburn Road before searching the property and later visited a second address and seized drugs.

A CID spokesman said one man was due to be questioned by officers but charges had yet to be made.

Sergeant Ian Hanson, of Darwen Police, said: "We recovered illegal weapons and firearms at the first address off Blackburn Road and at the second address, in the St James area, we seized a quantity of cannabis, drugs paraphernalia and stolen goods."