Nine arrested over 'Hitler birthday party' in pub

Nine radical person been arrested and weapons and Nazi memorabilia seized aft a radical "celebrated Adolf Hitler's birthday" successful an Oldham pub.

Members of the far-right radical British Movement North West posted pictures online of themselves eating a barroom with swastika icing and appeared to clasp up Nazi flags astatine the Duke of Edinburgh successful Market Street, Royton, past month.

The pub's owners said its unit had been tricked by the group, who had allegedly concealed their Nazi paraphernalia.

Greater Manchester Police said it had conducted greeting raids crossed Rochdale, Bolton, Trafford, Stockport and Southport seizing swords, a crossbow, imitation firearms and a suspected grenade.

The unit said the 9 had been arrested connected suspicion of Section 18 Public Order Act offences, including displaying written worldly intended to disturbance up radical hatred.

GMP said "as a substance of course" it had been successful interaction with Counter Terrorism Policing North West who had "offered advice" connected immoderate of the materials seized.

Following the betterment of a suspected grenade astatine a spot successful Bolton, Army weaponry disposal experts were deployed and the point was declared safe.

The unit said officers remained astatine immoderate of the properties portion searches continued, and other patrols had been deployed to reassure residents.

Assistant Chief Constable Steph Parker said: "This radical intelligibly has a heavy fascination with ideas that we cognize are unsettling for communities crossed Greater Manchester.

"We indispensable instrumentality enactment erstwhile concerns are raised, and wherever weapons are suspected, to guarantee radical are escaped to unrecorded without fearfulness of intimidation oregon harm."

She said that portion the probe was astatine an aboriginal signifier the unit did not judge determination was a wider menace to the public.

A website tally by the Neo-Nazi radical described the lawsuit arsenic a solemnisation of the "136th day of Uncle A".

The write-up described "laughter and lively conversation" with members reminiscing "about the bully times portion readying their aboriginal BM escapades".