UK airports on alert as police quiz grenade suspect

A major security operation was continuing at British airports and other key sites today, as anti-terrorist police quizzed a passenger over a live grenade found in luggage at Gatwick airport.

The grenade was found in the baggage of a 37-year-old man travelling with a Venezuelan passport after he touched down on British Airways flight BA 2048 from Bogota in Colombia at 1.23pm yesterday.