A PASSENGER using an electronic cigarette which gives off a vapour caused armed police to swoop on a coach in a terror alert which closed a motorway for more than four hours.

Armed officers, troops, firefighters and bomb disposal experts all went to the scene on the M6 toll road near Lichfield after a passenger on the Megabus, operated by Stagecoach, reported seeing vapour coming from a man's bag.

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