'Looks like a ******* grenade to me': Magnet fisherman catches more than he bargained for

This is the moment a "magnet fishermen" caught a hand grenade in a canal - sparking a major police operation.

Andrew Wild uses a magnet on the end of the rope to search for objects along river beds- a hobby described as "deep water metal detecting".

But he got a bit more than he bargained for during his last cast of the day on Rochdale canal in Greater Manchester - a grenade:

Homes and streets were evacuated and the bomb disposal unit was scrambled.

Andrew says you can pull all kinds of objects out of the canal - he's found a number of shopping trolleys and even a motorbike, but he's never found anything like this.

He said "it was a good bit of excitement and a good story to tell.”