A property in a Kent town allegedly being used as a crack house has been boarded up.

Police were at 53 Brunswick Street, Ramsgate, on Thursday afternoon as metal shutters were put over the doors and windows after a civil court issued a closure order under anti-social behaviour legislation.

Nobody will now live at the address for three months and it can then be relet.

The order came after the house was raided by officers with a misuse of drugs warrant following a three-month operation involving neighbours and Thanet Council well as police.

PC Sue Luck paid tribute to the neighbours. "They have been willing to give statements and are prepared to come to court," she said.