Grenade scare
Date published: 27 April 2011
Army bomb-disposal experts were called to Chadderton yesterday (Tuesday 26 April 2011) after a builder walked into the police station holding a hand grenade he had found in Middleton.
Officers were stunned when the man went to the front counter at 8.15am with the device, along with ammunition found in the garden of a disused house in Caldbeck Drive, Langley, where he was working.
The items were placed on unused land off Gateway Crescent near the station and a 100-metre cordon put in place.
Roads were closed and staff were ordered to leave a part of the station which fell within the exclusion zone.
The Army team found that the grenade was not dangerous and removed it and the ammunition for safe disposal. The cordon was lifted by 10.45am.
A police source said the man should have left the items where he found them and called the police.
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