- About 40 homes in Brentwood, Essex, have been evacuated and a 100-metre cordon established following the discovery of suspicious items at a property.
- Essex Police were called to Sawyers Grove at about 7.20 am on Friday following reports of a neighbourhood dispute involving damage to a door.
- A man and a woman were arrested after officers forced entry to an address, and both remain in police custody.
- Explosive ordnance disposal experts and a bomb disposal robot were called to the scene to assess the suspicious items.
- Displaced residents have been advised to go to a temporary rendezvous point at King George’s Playing Fields Pavilion while emergency services work at the site.
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