Police in Newquay have seized a batch of ecstasy similar to the pills which killed a teenager at a festival in Cumbria last month.

Police are warning the public after confiscating the orange-yellow tablets, stamped with a Rolls Royce logo, which resemble one of three designs which could be linked to the death of Christian Pay.

Inspector Dave Meredith said: “This is a particularly dangerous batch of ecstasy, and whilst we have seized this batch there is a good chance that more remains in the area. The tablets are yellow-orange in colour, rectangular in shape and have a distinctive Rolls Royce (RR) logo. Tablets similar to this have been linked to the death of a teenager and also left a number of people hospitalised in Cumbria.

"If you have purchased this drug and yet to have taken it, then please to surrender them to us - they are dangerous; if you take them they are potentially fatal. We won't be arresting you and prosecuting you - these drugs are that dangerous we need to get them off the streets."

Between 200 and 300 of the tablets were seized at a nightclub in Newquay in the early hours of Sunday, August 9. A 23-year-old man from Gloucestershire has been arrested on suspicion of possession with intent to supply a class-A drug.