article_snippet.sent: A full-scale terror alert was sparked this week after a dummy wearing a balaclava was spotted on a boat sailing down the Thames with a fake missile launcher on the Thames roof.
article_snippet.sent: Thames Valley Police called an Army bomb disposal team after a startled passer-by reported the 4ft long guided missile in a rocket launcher on top of the barge in Reading.
article_snippet.sent: A terror alert was sparked on the Thames this week after someone reported seeing a missile on top of a barge in Reading .
article_snippet.sent: After approaching a canal boat in Caversham, police and the bomb disposal unit inspected a missile and confirmed the deadly-looking weapon was a dummy.
article_snippet.sent: Reading is just a few miles from Windsor where the Queen was in residence in the Castle this week - presenting the VC to Afghan war hero Joshua Leakey.
article_snippet.sent: Police and an Army bomb disposal team responded to the call and later said the missile 'was found to be purely ornamental' Realistic fake: The 4ft-long model weapon was mounted on the roof on the barge as the missile ' sailed down the Thames in Berkshire .
highlights_snippet.sent: 4ft missile was spotted on the roof of barge as 4ft missile sailed through Reading .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Alarmed passer-by called police and Army bomb disposal team responded .
  