Raoul Moat: Business as usual for town in search
RESIDENTS in the small market town at the centre of the search for Raoul Moat kept calm and carried on yesterday as the hunt moved on.
Rothbury’s shops and businesses opened their doors to customers again while scores of armed police continued to keep watch over the town and the surrounding Northumberland countryside.
Marked police cars were stationed on the town’s streets but the two-mile exclusion zone imposed on Tuesday was relaxed.
Officers urged people to go about their lives as usual and schools remained open despite previously being under lockdown even as specialist teams searched woodland and countryside around the town.
Detectives said they believe Moat may still be in the area.
But Morris Adamson, who runs Rothbury Family Butchers, said: “It’s business as usual today. We’re carrying on regardless.”
He added: “Most trade has been from the media and police”