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Suspected bomb which sparked evacuation of city suburb turned out to be a lamppost

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yesterday

Police were called in when gas workers uncovered the object in Allen’s Lane in Sprowston on Wednesday morning.

Officers set up a 100-meter radius cordon and neighbours were told to evacuate to the nearby Sprowston Diamond Centre in School Lane.

The bomb turned out to be street furniture (Image: Wikimedia Commons) READ MORE: Coffee bike business appears by Prince of Wales Road

It was not until the bomb squad arrived at the site in the late........

© Norwich Evening News