Police called out to site near Peterborough after grenade is uncovered
Police responded to a potentially explosive discovery which caused alarm at a recycling plant in Peterborough this week.
Officers rushed out to reports of a grenade being found by a staff member at the site in Whittlesey.
The object was uncovered on a conveyor belt at the premises at around 8.30am – but was thankfully deemed to be not dangerous.
A spokesperson for Cambridgeshire Constabulary said: “We were called to a recycling plant in Whittlesey yesterday morning with the explosive news they had found a grenade!
“The Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team collected the grenade, which had already been deactivated, and took it away for disposal.”