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Grenade alert in city

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Parts of Wolverhampton city centre were sealed off today after a member of the public took a hand grenade into Bilston Street police station.

Officers closed Piper’s Row and Tower Street after the grenade was handed in at the station’s front desk at 9.45am. Bomb disposal experts were called in.

The nearby tram station remained open but services were delayed.

This article was posted on Monday, January 21st, 2008 at 3:28 pm.
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Dave Philips

January 21, 2008 at 5:11 pm

Its a hand grenade for gods sake not a bloody cluster bomb!

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roy jenkins

January 21, 2008 at 11:18 pm

best laxative man invented:))

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Pete Baldwin

January 22, 2008 at 11:08 am

hand grenades and cluster bombs.. Reminds me of Worms on the PC! Classic game.

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stu

January 24, 2008 at 6:39 am

Thank god it was only a grenade.If it was 1mm of snow they would have shut down the whole West Midlands

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