POLICE have arrested today 15 suspected illegal immigrants trying to enter the country hiding in the back of a lorry.
A lorry driver raised the alarm at about 10.40am and officers from Bicester and Banbury swooped on an HGV at the Moto Cherwell Valley services off the M40.
Police found 15 men hiding in the trailer of the lorry and they were arrested at the scene.
The investigation has now been passed to UK Border Force, which carry out a full investigation.
It is not known which country the men were from.
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