SIX Swindon people arrested on drugs charges will be able to attend a friend's wedding at the end of the month but not the stag night.

The five men and one woman, who are all known to each other, were arrested with four others at the end of a police operation in which £150,000 worth of cannabis was seized.

None were in a position to enter pleas when they appeared at Swindon Crown Court for a plea and directions hearing yesterday.

But defence counsels expressed concern about bail conditions.

It had been made a condition during the defendants' previous appearance in court that none should make contact with each other.

But Recorder William Hart was told that the wedding of a couple known to the Swindon defendants at the end of the month would make that condition impossible to observe.

Mr Hart agreed to waive restrictions for the wedding on September 28 but refused the six defendants the same privilege for the stag night next weekend.

The 10 defendants, including a family of three from south Lon-don, appeared at court to face alle-gations of conspiracy to supply drugs.

The arrests followed the recovery of 50kg of cannabis after an operation that concluded at the Spotted Cow pub near Coate Water in Swindon in February.

Vincent Gibbs, 36, of Croft Road; Mark Kirwan, 40, of Farrfield Road, Stratton; Craig Wanless, 26, of Ponting Street; William Living-stone, 35, of Lyndhurst Crescent; Richard Brinsdon, 33, of Fuller Close; Tracy Bunce, 39, of Croft Road; Graham Stratton, 31, of Rassau Road, Ebbw Vale; Colin Butler, 57 and his wife Winifred, 53, of Scott Lidgett Crescent, London, are all charged with conspiracy to supply cannabis resin and cocaine.

Colin John Butler, 34, of Scott Lidgett Crescent, London, is charged with conspiracy to supply cannabis resin.

The charges date between December 1 last year and Feb-ruary 12 this year.