{"id":45086,"date":"2026-01-20T13:07:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T13:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/swindon-retail-park-evacuated-after-ammunition-handed-in\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T13:07:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T13:07:42","slug":"swindon-retail-park-evacuated-after-ammunition-handed-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/swindon-retail-park-evacuated-after-ammunition-handed-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Swindon retail park evacuated after &#8216;ammunition&#8217; handed in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A large section of a retail park was temporarily evacuated after suspected ammunition was reportedly handed in to a charity shop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The items, believed to have been donated in a small bag, were handed into the Cancer Research UK store at the Greenbridge Retail Park in Swindon earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The items have since been taken by bomb disposal experts for testing and a cordon, set up around the building at 10:30 GMT, has since been lifted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The Cancer Research UK store is expected to remain closed for the rest of Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Wiltshire Police said: &#8220;The rest of the retail park remains open as usual.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Around five pieces of ammunition were reportedly handed in at the shop, with four of the items being 7.62mm &#8211; the standard size for many military small arms munitions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A fifth item is thought to be a much larger type of round.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cy4gxmm7x2mo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large section of a retail park was temporarily evacuated after suspected ammunition was reportedly handed in to a charity shop. The items, believed to have been donated in a small bag, were handed into the Cancer Research UK store at the Greenbridge Retail Park in Swindon earlier. The items have since been taken by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[13370,2181,5295,2757,1811,13326],"class_list":["post-45086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-england","tag-ammunition","tag-evacuated","tag-handed","tag-park","tag-retail","tag-swindon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45088,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45086\/revisions\/45088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}