Investigation launched into explosives find at Oswestry's British Ironworks Centre

Police have launched an investigation into how explosives were found at a tourist attraction in Shropshire.

Published Apr 16, 2016

The British Ironwork Centre, near Oswestry, was evacuated and a bomb quad carried out a controlled explosion after a package - believed to contain nitroglycerine was found.

Bedforshire Police has been asked to investigate how the explosives came to be in a batch of weapons being collected for a knife angel sculpture at the centre which were donated by various police forces.

The centre, which was closed on Thursday afternoon with a 100 metre cordon thrown around it, was reopened to the public yesterday morning.

Ben Knowles, operations director, said: "After the events of Thursday, we are now open again as usual."

A campaign is under way to see the knife angel, being created by sculpturer Alfie Bradley, mounted on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square in London.