Maidenhead & Windsor

Police and bomb disposal experts attended an incident in Maidenhead yesterday in which a live hand grenade was found in a garden.

At about 2.15pm, two gardeners working in communal gardens at the rear of Phoenix Court in Norreys Drive, Maidenhead, discovered a hand grenade underneath bushes.

Police attended the scene and after inspecting the device, they placed a safety cordon around the immediate area and called in army bomb disposal specialists.

The grenade was believed to be World War II ordnance of American design. It is not known how it came to be in the gardens, but the area used to be a landfill site.

The bomb disposal team took the grenade to Ockwells Park, where it was detonated safely in a controlled explosion at approximately 4pm. No-one was injured in the incident and residents of the flats were not evacuated.

Thames Valley Police ~ Maidenhead