Bomb squad leaves Eastbourne’s Grove Road

By The Newsroom
Published 2nd May 2019, 19:35 BST
Updated 2nd May 2019, 19:43 BST
Police officers at the end of Grove RoadPolice officers at the end of Grove Road
Police officers at the end of Grove Road
A bomb squad has removed a World War Two hand grenade from Eastbourne’s Grove Road for safe disposal, a police spokesman confirmed.

An 100-metre cordon was set up around a van in Grove Road at 2.25pm this afternoon, after a man walked into the police and council offices and said there was a hand grenade in the glovebox.

Read our original story here.

Some of the buildings in the immediate vicinity were evacuated as a precaution.

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Police in Grove Road