Grenade found in Rushden by man working on garden

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A man has found a grenade in his garden while smashing up a concrete path with a sledgehammer.

Paul Hogan noticed the ordnance when he went back to clear the rubble at his home in Higham Road, Rushden.

"I had actually hit it with a spade again before I realised what it was," he said.

The police have been at the house and the Army bomb squad has been called in to dispose of the grenade, which was partly encased in concrete.

Mr Hogan said he had been told the grenade was a Mills Bomb dating from World War I and he believed his road had been built on a former quarry which may have been used to test ordnance.

"I was landscaping my garden and was moving the rubble when I suddenly noticed the grenade and geed my wife and dog out of the way.

"I had butterflies in my stomach, decided not to pick it up.

"I walked up to it and took a photograph of it with some trepidation, but I don't know if it's live or not."

Northamptonshire Police said they had informed neighbours what had happened, but the street had not been evacuated.