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| 'Substance' alert at MP's office | |
| (about 2 hours later) | |
| Police are investigating a suspicious substance found at the office of the Glasgow Labour MP Mohammed Sarwar. | |
| A Royal Logistics Corps bomb disposal team was called to an address in Paisley Road West at 0830 BST, along with police officers and firefighters. | |
| A police cordon was set up, stretching from around Mr Sarwar's office to Edwin Street. | |
| A Strathclyde Police spokesman said four people had been moved out of the flats as a precautionary measure. | A Strathclyde Police spokesman said four people had been moved out of the flats as a precautionary measure. |
| Mr Sarwar confirmed that a substance was found in his office but said the investigation was at an early stage. | |
| Highly corrosive | |
| The nature of the substance is unclear. | |
| The incident comes just a day after police discovered two parcels containing caustic soda. | |
| The packages were sent to a councillor in Blackburn, Lancashire, and ajournalist in Glasgow, Greater Manchester Police said. | |
| Police said one of the letters was signed SNLA - possibly a reference to apreviously recognised group called the Scottish National Liberation Army. | |
| Caustic soda, also called sodium hydroxide or lye, is a highly corrosivesubstance widely used in industry for making paper, pulp, textiles, soap and detergent. | |
| Contact with concentrated caustic soda can cause blindness and severechemical burns to the skin. |