Newbold Coleorton man in court over explosives charge

A man has appeared in court charged with making or possessing explosives under suspicious circumstances after part of a village was cordoned off.

Homes were evacuated and roads shut as bomb disposal experts were called on Thursday afternoon.

Matthew Montanow, 29, from Vicarage Close, in Newbold Coleorton, Leicestershire, was remanded in custody at Leicester Magistrates' Court.

Police said they were not treating it as a terrorist incident.

Mr Montanow has also been charged with possessing firearm ammunition during a five-year period following a suspended sentence of three months or more and possessing ammunition for a firearm without a certificate.

He is next due to appear at the same court on 20 September.

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