TWO men are due to appear at crown court after a cannabis farm was discovered in Hanbury.

Ervin Aliaj, age 24, and Ndoj Ardit, age 22, both of no fixed address, will have their cases heard at Worcester Crown Court on Thursday, March 7.

They are both charged with producing a controlled drug of Class B - cannabis and abstract/use without authority electricity of a value unknown.

The hearing in March will be for plea and trial preparation.

It follows a police raid on a warehouse in Hanbury where 500 plants were discovered on Wednesday (February 7).

Two days later the warehouse was almost destroyed in a fire.

Hereford and Worcester Fire Service was called out to a large metal farm building along the B4090, Hanbury, at 10.16am on Friday (February 9).

A passerby spotted the fire and called police.

Four fire engines from Droitwich, Bromsgrove and Redditch fire stations were on call at the scene, as the firefighters tackled the blaze and doused out the flames by early afternoon.

James Holder, station commander at Hereford and Worcester Fire Service, said there had been no reports of people inside at the time.