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Dundee emergency grenade from WWII

A grenade which sparked an emergency when it was handed to a police officer dated from World War II, the Army has said.

Residents in Dura Street, Dundee, were told to stay indoors and the road closed after the device was passed to an officer on Tuesday afternoon.

Army bomb disposal experts were called in and took the badly-corroded grenade away to destroy it elsewhere.

It had been dug up several years ago by a man in the local area, police said....

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