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Two quizzed after bomb squad destroys 'explosives'

News imageBBC/Sam Hotson A red and yellow fire engine, white bomb disposal van and yellow incident response unit van all parked extremely close to each other. The fire engine is on the left and incident response on the right, with the bomb disposal van parked an an angle in the middle. The back doors of the bomb disposal van are open. The top of a red brick house is visible above the vans on the left. There are telephone wires above them and trees peaking out beyond the bomb disposal van. BBC/Sam Hotson
A bomb disposal unit destroyed items found in a house in Stanley on Tuesday

Two people have been arrested on suspicion of manufacturing ammunition without a licence following a bomb squad operation at a house.

The men, aged 71 and 46, were held on Tuesday during a search of the property on Robert Terrace in Shield Row, Stanley, Durham Police said.

Detectives said "potentially explosive substances", believed to have been used to make homemade fireworks, were recovered from the property and destroyed by members of a bomb disposal unit.

The pair remain in custody while an investigation continues.

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