Bomb squad raced to Jamie Oliver restaurant as chef 'targeted by Cornish terrorists'

 Jamie Oliver has described how he was the target of terrorists from Cornwall who made a bomb threat against his restaurant.

The celebrity chef has spoken for the first time of how he was the target of The Cornish National Liberation Army (CNLA). The 'nationalist paramilitary organisation' wants the county to be independent - and sent a series of threats to celebs there.

Jamie says he became a target after opening his restaurant Fifteen in Newquay in 2006. Speaking on the James O'Brien podcast Full Disclosure, he said: ''I had bomb squad there when I opened because I was English, Cockney apparently. So we had bomb squad there because we had death threats from the terrorist, there was a Cornish terrorist.

''Cornish separatists. Anyway, long story short, I found out a year after that that I was like 400 years Cornish, from Penzance. Oliver's come from Olverton in Penzance.

''And the guy that did the death threat, who licked the stamp, who got done for another crime, was only second generation Cornish and came from up north.”

The little-known Cornwall National Liberation Army issued a series of murderous threats against chefs including Jamie and Rick Stein. It threatened to perform acts of vandalism and arson against commercial targets that it considered to be English, in Cornwall.

It comes after a bomb squad was scrambled and residents from around 50 homes were forced to evacuate after a man was found dead in a Derbyshire village.

Officers were called to a property in Church Lane, Horsley Woodhouse, at around 7.30am on Friday following the "sudden death of a man", Derbyshire Police said. Concerns about potentially dangerous items in a shed led to Church Lane being closed between Stainsby Avenue and Calladine Lane and nearby properties being evacuated.

In an update on Saturday afternoon, Derbyshire Constabulary said: "A police cordon in Horsley Woodhouse was lifted early this morning after nearby properties were evacuated as a precaution yesterday afternoon."

The Explosive Ordnance Division had examined two sheds at the property and found "no wider risk to the public". The sheds contained "items linked to lawfully held firearms", which were safely disposed of, the force said.

The man’s death is not being treated as suspicious and his next of kin have been informed. A file will be prepared for the coroner.