POLICE found "several hundred pounds" worth of cannabis in a car they had pulled over due to a faulty brake light.

Officers from West Yorkshire Police's Steerside Enforcement Team - the force's dedicated initiative tackling anti-social and dangerous driving - pulled over a blue Land Runner on Leeds Road, in Bradford yesterday.

The car was heading out of the city centre and police stopped it near the junction with Napier Road because one of the vehicle's brake lights was out.

Officers conducted checks on the driver too and discovered they had no licence or insurance.

The car was also searched and the officers discovered "several hundred pounds worth of cannabis".

The driver failed a roadside drug test.

Police arrested the driver and seized the vehicle, as a result.

A spokesperson for West Yorkshire Police said: "Yesterday we stopped this vehicle with a brake light out.

"Unfortunately for the driver, they didn’t have a licence or insurance and had several hundred pounds worth of cannabis with them.

"They failed a roadside drug wipe.

"They were arrested and the vehicle seized."