The BBC reports that one of the suspect packages which caused the evacuation of Birmingham contained a stage firework:
About 20,000 people were forced to leave the area on Saturday evening:
Ch Supt Peter Goodman said West Midlands Police had received intelligence which gave a "credible and specific" threat.
He said a box with wires and a switch was found in a hotel room and a separate package was reported on a bus.
Both turned out to be harmless, but police said they reinforced the information that the city had been targeted.
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During the search they came across the pyrotechnical device in a room at the Premier Travel Inn.
A man has been interviewed but no further action is to be taken against him.
In a separate incident, a member of the public reported a suspicious package on a bus in the city centre. Bomb disposal experts were called in and carried out four controlled explosions.
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