Orchard Gap site supervisor Malcolm Thompson and forklift driver and labourer Dean Keeney who found the grenade on top soil on the site. Photo: K2016106
WATCH the controlled explosion carried out by bomb disposal experts after a World War Two grenade was found at the Orchard Gap housing development site on Allendale Road in Hexham. Video: Maurice Watson.
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