False alarm forces Telford shoppers to flee
Dozens of customers had to be evacuated from a Telford supermarket in a fire alert that turned out to be a false alarm.
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Staff and shoppers at Morrisons in Wellington left the store after the automatic fire alarm started sounding.
Howard Thomas, 56 of Leegomery, managed to capture pictures of the waiting crowds outside the shop at 1pm yesterday.
A spokeswoman for Morrisons said:
"The fire crew arrived within 10 minutes and declared a false alarm. We apologise to our customers for any inconvenience." that this may have caused on their shopping trip."
