City centre blast.BOMB disposal experts carried out a controlled explosion after finding a suspect package in Birmingham City Centre yesterday. Cops were alerted to the package on Corporation Street late on Friday night. They were forced to close a stretch of the busy road while officers destroyed the suspected device. West Midlands Police West Midlands Police is the Home Office police force responsible for policing the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second largest in the United Kingdom after London's Metropolitan Police [1]. It covers an area with nearly 2. said the controlled explosion happened at 12.30am on Saturday morning and they were able to re-open the street at around 1am. The fire service later found the package was a hoax Hoax Balloon Hoax, The news story in 1844, reporting the transatlantic crossing of a balloon with eight passengers. [Am. Lit.: The Balloon Hoax in Poe] Piltdown man missing link turned out to be orangutan. [Br. Hist. . |
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