An Edinburgh charity shop has been evacuated after a deactivated hand grenade was found among donated goods. Lothian and Borders Police received a call to the Cancer Research UK shop in Morningside Road at 1550 BST.
A military bomb disposal team was alerted and took away a grenade, from which the explosive had been removed. Shop manager Karyn Leadbetter described the look of fear on her assistant's face as she found the grenade, complete with pin, in a box of bric-a-brac.
She told the BBC Scotland news website: "I was down in the basement with the assistant manager who was looking through donations we had just received. She was in a box full of bric-a-brac when suddenly she shouted 'we've got a grenade and it's got a pin in it'. Her face was petrified. I shouted over 'you're having me on' but when I saw and felt the weight of it the colour drained from my face because I thought it could blow at any time."
Ms Leadbetter, who has been manager at the shop for three years, added: "We immediately called the police who told us to evacuate the shop.
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