Grenade alert in city

Monday 21st January 2008, 3:28PM GMT.



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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. 


  1. 1
    Dave Philips

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

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    roy jenkins

    best laxative man invented:))

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  3. 3
    Pete Baldwin

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

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    stu

    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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