A MAN has appeared in court in Bury accused of supplying cocaine to a drug trafficking syndicate operating in Greater Manchester, Lancashire and the West Midlands.

Former builder Paul Andrew Robinson, aged 44, of Hardman Close, Radcliffe, denied conspiring with five others to supply cocaine. But an application for bail was refuesed.

Robinson will appear at Bolton Crown Court on May 4.

Magistrates at Bury also granted an application by the Police National Crime Squad to seize and hold for three months £22,000 recovered from a wall cavity behind a cupboard from Armstrong's home under the Proceeds Of Crime Act.

Armstrong was arrested at an address in Radcliffe as part of an ongoing investigation by police which started last year.