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A town centre shopping street was sealed off by police this morning after a suspected grenade was donated to a charity shop.

Police were called to the British Heart Foundation store in Mesnes Street, Wigan, at 10.40am, after the ‘grenade’ was discovered in a piece of furniture donated.

Police set up a 100m cordon while they investigated. Access to Northway and New Market Street was blocked from the road until 12:30pm, when police left.

Cops sealed Mesnes Street as far back as Marsden Street. READ MORE: “It's all a bit f*****": The home of Greater Manchester's poorest kids It was then established that the ‘grenade’ was not given to the store with ‘any malicious intentions’, GMP’s Wigan West division said.

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