A Sussex man has been remanded in custody for a week on charges of drug smuggling.

Martin John Lake, 60, of Bracken Lane, Storrington, is one of four men charged over a record £32 million seizure of cocaine, Customs officials said.

The 500kg haul, the largest ever to be smuggled into the UK by air, was recovered at Southend Airport in Essex.

A Customs spokesman said another man had been released and a sixth man was still being questioned.

Two of the other men charged are British - Christopher Barrett-Jolly, 54, from Wellington, Somerset, and his brother-in-law Peter Carine, 49, from Hensall, North Yorkshire.

The fourth man charged was a Nigerian, David Ogundipe, 45, from Lagos.

Customs officers were still questioning a Serb man in connection with the seizure.