A VILLAGE postmistress was left holding a "parcel bomb" when armed robbers escaped with a substantial amount of cash from a Cliviger post office.
Part of the village, near Burnley was sealed off, and around 120 villagers evacuated from their homes while an Army bomb disposal squad carried out a controlled explosion on the package.1
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