Man gets his street evacuated after pulling pin on WWII grenade from antique market

Bixton Close in Northwick, Worcester, was sealed off with a 100m cordon (Picture: SWNS)

An entire residential road was evacuated by a bomb squad after a man pulled a pin on a grenade bought at a market.

Bixton Close, in Northwick, Worcester, was sealed off with a 100m cordon on Sunday evening after the man showed the grenade to some friends.

He bought the RG-42 – a World War Two Soviet Union explosive device – from an antiques market over a year ago for £30.

But he didn’t...