UPDATE: Bomb disposal squad give details of today's Northamptonshire call-out

RAF Whittington has confirmed it sent a team to a Northamptonshire industrial estate.
Police attended the incident earlier on today (January 18).Police attended the incident earlier on today (January 18).
Police attended the incident earlier on today (January 18).

The incident happened in Tenter Road in Moulton Park industrial estate today and Northamptonshire Police and a Explosive Ordnance Disposal team from RAF Whittington attended the scene.

A spokesman for RAF Whittington said: "The item in question was a Mills grenade dating from around the World War Two period. It has now been destroyed in a controlled demolition."

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He urges the public - in any circumstance where they might come across a suspicious item - not to make any attempts to touch it or move it and call the police straight away before an EOD team attends the scene.