Grenade discovered in Darlaston
[gallery] Army bomb experts hwere called after a hand grenade was found at a house in Darlaston.
The discovery was made by police officers carrying out a drugs raid at a home in Addenbrooke Street at 8.15am.
Several streets around it were immediately closed, including Addenbrooke Place and Rough Hay Road at its junctions with Willenhall Street and The Green. Pupils at St Joseph's Catholic Primary School in Rough Hay Road were also sent home for the day.
West Midlands Police enforced the cordon and the grenade was made safe just after 2pm. People are now being allowed back into their homes.
Evacuated residents were taken from their homes to Bentley Leisure Pavilion, in Bentley Road North, where a shelter was set up.
A taxi service was laid on to ferry people to the rest centre and the Red Cross provided lunches.
Some residents reported being woken up by police knocking on the door just after 8.15am and telling them to evacuate.
A cannabis factory was discovered in the upstairs bedroom containing 15 cannabis plants.
A 53-year-old man and a 54-year-old woman were arrested on suspicion of cultivation of cannabis and remain in custody helping officers with inquiries.
