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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
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Jon Macpherson & Daniel Windham

Homes evacuated after 'bomb making equipment' found in police raid

Homes were evacuated and a man has been arrested after 'bomb making equipment' was found in a house.

Officers from Lancashire Police executed a warrant at an address on Nursery Close, Leyland, at around 6am on Thursday, June 22, and a number of 'suspicious items' were found.

A 59-year-old man from Leyland was arrested at the scene under the Explosives Act, and he remains in custody. Emergency services remain at the scene and a number of properties have been evacuated.

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