Couple had a narrow escape after bringing home what they thought was an old gas canister
Two litter pickers unwittingly drove half a mile home with a live first world war bomb in the car as their weekly good deed turned into a scene from a Hollywood thriller.
There was then a nail-biting wait for the emergency services. “It was frothing, the shell was bubbling. It was strange and frightening,” Wills said. She said she thought recent floods had dislodged the bomb and brought it to the surface, and it was “so lucky children didn’t find it”.
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