For years, scores of unexploded practice bombs dating to World War II lay buried beneath the feet of playing children in northern England. What's more, the 175 or so bombs likely would have ...

Keele University researchers have investigated three World War II Allied aerial bombing decoy sites in North Staffordshire, UK, uncovering significant variation in preservation and construction.

The unexploded ordnance, discovered during a site renovation, were described as “practice bombs” that still carry a charge ...

A playground expansion in a small England town turned up a massive stockpile of unexploded World War II-era "practice" bombs.

Bomb disposal experts have been called after reports of a suspected unexploded World War Two bomb in a garden. Police were called to Mill Road in Cambridge after the discovery at about 12:55 GMT ...

It is believed the area where the playground was initially built was used as a Home Guard training ground and the bombs were buried at the end of the war.

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Scores of unexploded bombs dating from World War II have been recovered from a children’s playground in northern England after a chance discovery. Local officials in the town of Wooler ...

More than 170 bombs from World War II were discovered underneath a children's playground in northern England, officials said, and it is believed that more will be unearthed. The first of the bombs ...