ARMY bomb disposal experts were called out following the discovery of a hand grenade in a garden shed in Oswaldtwistle.
The alert was sparked yesterday teatime when a woman found the war souvenir in a shed in Rhyddings Street.
She placed the grenade in a bucket of water behind a wall and contacted the police.
The army bomb disposal unit were called out from Liverpool to examine the grenade.
It turned out to be an empty World War Two grenade with no explosives inside.
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