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[Prometheus]

Evacuated residents allowed to return home

 

People evacuated after suspected explosives were found at a flat in Derbyshire have started to return home.

 

A 100-metre cordon was put in place around the flat in Belvoir Crescent, Newhall, after neighbours reported homemade fireworks were being produced.

 

Up to 200 people were forced to leave their houses after police said they found a potentially volatile substance in a flat.

 

Seven controlled explosions were carried out by bomb disposal teams - one of which was performed a mile away from the scene for safety reasons.

 

Supt Paul Callum said everybody who had been evacuated, aside from the three immediate neighbours, was now able to go home.

 

"We are content that there is no longer any potential danger to residents in the area.

I would like to thank local residents for their patience and co-operation.

Their safety was paramount, which is why we asked them to leave their homes last night."

-SUPT PAUL CALLUM, DERBYSHIRE POLICE

 

 

A 55-year-old man was arrested yesterday and is still in police custody.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk...shire-28509704 

[cooperman435]

I've also seen an article stating (rightly or wrongly I don't know) that home made fireworks were the objects found.

[fruitfulsteve]

A mile away ? wow that must have been one big arsed fountain !!

[maxman]

Oh dear, I hope this sort of thing will stop now for people who are trying to be law abiding and following the new guidance!  By the way, any news on this? I thought it was due out in July. Not many days in July left now.

 

Rod

[Prometheus]

I've also seen an article stating (rightly or wrongly I don't know) that home made fireworks were the objects found.

 

According to Sky News his neighbours had been complaing for weeks prior to this, about explosions coming from the block of flats at all hours of the day and night: "sometimes two o'clock in the morning, six o'clock in the morning, half-twelve at night... we found the cartridges on the actual grass".

 

A mile away ? wow that must have been one big arsed fountain !!

 

I think they actually meant it was driven to a site a mile away to be destroyed in a controlled explosion. 

[fruitfulsteve]

According to Sky News his neighbours had been complaing for weeks prior to this, about explosions coming from the block of flats at all hours of the day and night: "sometimes two o'clock in the morning, six o'clock in the morning, half-twelve at night... we found the cartridges on the actual grass".

 

 

I think they actually meant it was driven to a site a mile away to be destroyed in a controlled explosion. 

Yes i know.

[Arthur Brown]

well in my home area you'd have to go a fair way to get an area without houses.

 

As I've said several times it's not the making a device it's the annoying the neighbours that hurts. Never marry someone unless you have good clear picture of them making BP filed in a bank vault.

[Prometheus]

Yes i know.

 

Of course, sorry... just the first time I read it I thought they'd performed the controlled explosion from a mile safety distance. I see what you mean though, it still seems like an over-reaction if it was just some homemade fireworks.

[Andrew]

Heard this on the radio and just read the scant info available on the web. Didn't come across the "pissing the neighbours off" story Prometheus mentioned but the doing it in a block of flats is in itself a bit dodge! This chap is probably not in the same league as sensible peops who understand that:

1. You need somewhere safe to set your creations off... and...

2. Descression is king!

[whoof]

Pissod off neighbours

They certainly will be now .
Last guy that did this was kicked out of his house by the police for his own safety.

[Andrew]

He was charged with making and possessing explosives and possession of a class B drug.

 

Wow, I thought this "stuff" ended a while ago. I may be wrong becasue I haven't looked at this in about 5 years so it's a little foggy; but the CPS/Police seem to be still, 9 years later, charging people with laws that no longer exist! "The Act" and the 1883 act were completely repealed in 2005 bar a handful of offensives (I believe "conspiracy to cause explosions" was the only chargable offense left), but the CPS' website speaks of explosives leglislation as if these two are the law ! I'm going to have to remind myself of the proceedings of 2005/2006 becuase I must have it worng or something!

[Andrew]

Hence earlier post Kenneth

 

1. You need somewhere safe to set your creations off... and...

 

Too right this chap's conduct needed attention.

 

I was commenting later on the ideological consensus of the rule of law....... massive rant......

 

But as I said, I think I need to refresh myself as to what is on the statue now.