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Historian Stephen Sartin
The area around the Post Office, including the Flag Market, Harris Street, the covered market and the top end of Friargate, was cordoned off and the Bomb Squad were called to investigate the “suspicious” briefcase.
The brown briefcase was spotted at about 2.15pm in the public area of the Post Office by a customer who had seen the man leave it behind and it was reported to branch manager Paul Hutchinson.
The all-clear was given two hours later after an elderly man, whose name has not been released, approached a police officer to ask what was happening and when told realised the briefcase was his.