BBOOMMBBSSCCAARREE; Police close major road due to buried gas cylinder.Byline: RICHARD DOWN POLICE shut down a major Liverpool road For the Australian road, see . Liverpool Road is located in the London Borough of Islington of inner north London. Liverpool road runs parallel to Upper street and is largely made up of Georgian architecture. It starts at Upper Street and joins Holloway Road. after a suspected World War bomb II was uncovered. Officers closed Rice Lane, in Walton, after builders working on a demolished house at the end of Brook Road discovered what appeared to be a bomb at about 12.45pm yesterday. Mechanical diggers Diggers, members of a small English religio-economic movement (fl. 1649–50), so called because they attempted to dig (i.e., cultivate) the wastelands. They were an offshoot of the more important group of Puritan extremists known as the Levelers. were quickly abandoned and the busy route was taped off at its junctions with Hornby Road, Queens Drive and Brook Road. A lone army disposal expert was called in to inspect a hole dug in the building site. But after investigation, the device turned out to be a buried gas cylinder. The bomb scare had already caused traffic chaos throughout the area. A Walton hospital spokesman confirmed that taxis were allowed to take patients home throughout the incident. He said: "There was some inevitable inconvenience but everyone understands the reason for it." By mid-afternoon, traffic jams built up as drivers diverted along Hornby Road slowed to see what was going on. Workers at McDonalds and Farmfoods, in Rice Lane, were told to close their stores, leaving some workers at the police cordon close to Rice Lane railway station Rice Lane railway station is a railway station in Liverpool, England, located to the north of the city centre in the Walton district. It is on the Kirkby branch of the Merseyrail network's Northern Line. . Walton library and one-stop shop were closed and evacuated. Harry McGuffrey, 75, was in the library when police moved in. He said: "When we got out, we were trapped between the cordons and had to find the best route out. "We had no idea what was going on. It was beyond belief." Some neighbouring homes were evacuated and a police block went up at the Birchdale Road. But other people got a grandstand view from their kitchen roof in Evered Road of the army bomb disposal team as it examined the device just yards away in Brook Road. Merseyside fire and rescue service The Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service is the statutory fire and rescue service covering the county of Merseyside in north-west England and is the statutory firefighting and rescue service responsible for all 999 fire brigade calls in Sefton, Knowsley, St Helens, Liverpool and sent three crews to the scene to assist. Superintendent Bill McWilliam, of Merseyside police, said: "Measures, including the evacuation of some properties nearby, were put in place to maintain the safety of residents whilst the bomb disposal team carried out its examination. "We would like to thank residents from the Rice Lane area and those who were disrupted." CAPTION(S): CAUTIOUS: Police and a bomb disposal expert bomb disposal expert n → artificiero/a check out what was thought to be an unexploded bomb, right, while the road is closed, above Pictures: JAMES MALONEY |
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