THREE men have admitted their part in the supply of cocaine and ecstasy, following a police undercover surveillance operation.

Plain clothes officers carried out a number of test purchases of the class A drugs in and around the Durham area, after an officer made an initial purchase in the city's Angel pub, in Crossgate.

It resulted in two men, Rowan Thomas Huck and Glen Colum Lemon, both 21, previously pleading to a number of offences relating to the supply of cocaine and ecstasy.

Huck, of Nevilledale Terrace, Durham, admitted three counts of supplying cocaine and five of ecstasy, on dates between April and July last year, at a hearing in February.

At the same hearing, Lemon, of Thurlow Way, Houghton-le-Spring, admitted being involved in the supply of ecstasy and cocaine, both on May 21 last year, plus possession of ecstasy, on July 17.

Sentence on both was adjourned, pending preparation of probation reports, to May 13.

A third member of the group, 25-year-old Paul Carroll, yesterday admitted being involved in the supply of both cocaine and ecstasy, last May 28, and possession of ecstasy, on July 16.

Judge John Milford QC adjourned the case for preparation of probation reports, and bailed Carroll, of Foster Avenue, Sherburn Village, near Durham, to also return for sentence on May 13.

The prosecution agreed that a charge of being concerned in the supply of class A drugs to another, on July 16 last year, should be left on the file, against a fourth defendant, Deborah Burnside, 20, of Station Road, Ushaw Moor, near Durham.

She was described as "a peripheral figure" in the operation.

Her defence barrister, Chris Morrison, agreed to the prosecution's course of action and a costs order was made in her favour by Judge Milford.