Forty homes are evacuated as a bomb squad examines 'small items' found after 'neighbour dispute' arrests in Brentwood, Essex
Essex Police officers at the door of an address in Sawyers Grove, Brentwood, where a 100-metre cordon was established after specialists were called to assess a small number of items found inside following the arrest of…
Officers forced entry to a home on Sawyers Grove, Brentwood, at 7.20am on Friday after a reported neighbour dispute in which a door had been damaged. A man and a woman were arrested at the scene and remain in custody while explosive ordnance disposal experts examine the objects. A 100-metre cordon stretches across much of Sawyers Grove and parts of Sawyers Hall Lane and Highland Avenue.
Residents were sent to a rendezvous point at King George's Playing Fields Pavilion while the cordon remains in place.
Nearby Michael Page, 84, said he was told simply to leave with no explanation: 'They wouldn't tell me anything.'
