Cordon thrown up after suspicious device is found
A SUSPECT device found in a suburban garden earlier today has now been confirmed as a live hand grenade.
Army bomb disposal experts made the identification after arriving at the cordoned-off scene in Bishopthorpe, near York, this afternoon.
They have carefully removed the grenade from the scene and taken it away to be safely disposed of in a nearby field.
The device was first found at about 2.20pm today by workmen who unearthed it in a garden on MacLagan Road. Police immediately threw up a 100m cordon round the scene which is now being lifted.
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