holdall

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Officers who attended the 999 call found rifles, shotguns, handguns and stun grenades and boxes of ammunition in a black holdall, as well as drugs including cocaine.

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  • She fumbled in her holdall, finally extracting a mobile phone. —  EQMM,March-April2008
  • Vi fidgeted in her holdall, eventually extracting an aged SLR camera. —  Magazine - Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine - 2007-02 - February
  • The arm was discovered on farmland in Wheathampstead on Sunday, a week after the leg was found in a holdall about 30-minutes drive away in Cottered. —  icHuddersfield
  • The left leg, with the foot attached, was discovered in a green holdall behind a hedgerow next to a lay-by on the A507 just outside Cottered on March 22. —  Latest News Breaking News and Current News from the UK and World Telegraph
  • The murder inquiry was sparked when a left leg and foot attached was found in a green holdall in a lay-by on the A507 in Cottered, Hertfordshire, on March 22.
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