The UK city becoming a ‘cocaine gateway’ as cartels flood ports with Class A drugs and dealers arm kids with CROSSBOWS [Video]

THE sign reads, ‘Welcome to the port of Southampton – the gateway to the world’.

But in the shadow of giant shipping cranes, the city is also becoming a doorway for drugs – as experts warn Latin America cartels see Britain as the “country of choice” for cocaine smuggling.

Last month, the National Crime Agency (NCA) – dubbed Britain’s FBI – made its biggest Class A drugs bust ever when £450million of cocaine was found in cartons of bananas in Southampton’s port.

And the boom in illegal imports is being felt on the city’s streets, too, as local drug lords …