Teenage boy arrested after bomb scare evacuation

A teenage boy has been arrested in relation to offences under the Firearms Act

A teenage boy has been arrested in relation to offences under the Firearms Act after properties in a Kent town were evacuated due to a bomb scare.

Police evacuated four streets after being called to Rosedale Road in Margate at about 16:00 BST on Wednesday when suspicious items were discovered in a flat.

People from homes in Rosedale Road, Glencoe Road, Wharfedale Road and Malham Drive were taken to a local leisure centre, and an explosive ordinance team was sent to the scene.

All evacuees have since been allowed back into their homes and the police cordon has been removed.

The teenage boy remains in custody pending further enquiries.

Ch Insp Ian Swallow said: "We are treating this as an isolated incident and have no wider concern for public safety."

Eszther Kadar said residents in the care home where she works had to be moved

Eszther Kadar is an assisted living worker at a small care home in Malham Drive.

"Our residents were evacuated yesterday and some of them were very shaken up by it," she said. "This is a quiet cul-de-sac where not much ever happens.

"It did unsettle one of the residents who is quite sensitive to things happening that she can't understand."

Homes in Rosedale Road were evacuated on Wednesday night

James Edwards, who lives in Rosedale Road, told BBC Radio Kent: "The police turned up first, then the bomb squad turned up, we didn't know what was going on."

Laura Burbridge said the evacuation had been "really disrupting"

Laura Burbridge, who lives in Glencoe Road, told BBC Radio Kent: "It's been really disrupting. I've got three teenage sons and we had to go to my elderly mum's house.

"We were all sleeping top to toe and I had feet in my mouth. Now I've got to get ready for work, it's not good."