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A suspected wartime artillery item discovered on a Somerset beach has been destroyed in a secure location by the Royal Navy. HM Coastguard Watchet responded to reports of the item on the shoreline on Monday, before photographs of it were Read More …
A mother-of-nine extracted gunpowder from party poppers in a bid to make an explosive device to kill herself, a court heard today. Former postwoman Erin Foley said she wanted to use the device to die by suicide, Taunton Crown Court Read More …
Royal Navy EOD divers have successfully disabled a piece of World War 2 ordnance on the southern shore of the Bristol Channel. Called to a report of an unknown object exposed by an unusually low tide a few hundred meters Read More …
Police have revealed why suspicious package fears in Filton prompted a controlled explosion. Specialist officers, police dogs and an army bomb disposal unit evacuated Gloucester Road’s Royal Mail sorting office in the early hours of Friday (September 11). Investigations led Read More …
Counter-terrorism police descended on a sleepy village to arrest a man on suspicion of possessing a bomb. The 33-year-old man was arrested in the tiny village of Paulton, Somerset, as part of an investigation by Counter Terrorism Policing South East Read More …
A World War Two bomb found on a beach in Somerset was detonated by explosives experts. The bomb was discovered by a man out metal detecting on Brean Beach on Tuesday afternoon (July 21) Police attended and put a cordon Read More …
Coastguards will return to Brean Beach today (Wednesday) to try and safely retrieve a suspected WW2 explosive device which was found in the sand by a metal detector user yesterday. Part of Brean beach was temporarily closed by Police on Read More …