GV: Bomb Disposal and Police lock down area of Teesside after reports of Bomb Making Equipment

BGUK_2285714 - **Strictly No Daily Mail Online usage via BackGrid** Police swarm on a hostel in Hartington Road, Stockton-On-Tees in Teesside, County Durham after reports of Bomb Making equipment inside one of the rooms. Police have locked up two men who were outside the property this morning but the area has been closed since and remains closed this evening. Specialist Bomb Disposal experts have been called from Catterick Garrison and are assisting the police. Nearby houses and businesses have all been evacuated since around lunch time today. A man who lives in the property said that staff in the hostel called the police after smelling something suspicious. He said the people involved only moved in a few days ago and are foreign.