COPS have netted a huge haul of banned pills after raiding a cornershop exposed in The People's "hillbilly heroin" probe.

Officers swooped on the JK Cash & Carry store in Southall, west London, and seized 15,000 packs of spasmo proxyvon tablets - a heroin substitute banned from sale in the UK.

Two people have since been arrested on suspicion of supplying unlicensed medicines without prescription and were bailed.

A police source said: "Thank you to The People for your help."

We revealed last month how stores were selling drugs similar to the hillbilly heroin which hooked movie wildgirl Lindsay Lohan.

Raids led by the Operation Maxim illegal immigration taskforce have also been made on nine addresses and cash and phoney documents seized.