It has been some week for the Luftwaffe. First, a 1,000lb Nazi bomb discovered in Bermondsey near to the Shard forced 1,200 residents to flee their homes, as well as closing three schools and numerous shops - Strike 1.
A few days later, a police station in Bourne, Lincolnshire, was evacuated after a resident bought in an old artillery shell they had dug up in their garden - Strike 2.
While up towards the Humber Estuary, Goole Police station was also shut when a gardener unearthed – and handed in – another unexploded German bomb - Strike 3.
And this is all not to mention a cache of 20 World War Two phosphorous grenades discovered by workmen on a new housing development on Great Gutter Lane in Willerby on the outskirts of Hull. If you have been out in the garden digging raised beds over the bank holiday weekend then you might just have had a lucky escape.
There are thousands of so-called unexploded ordnance (UXOs in military parlance) dating back to the Second World War dotted across Britain. Up to one in ten bombs dropped by the Germans failed to detonate, in part a fault of hasty manufacturing but also due to sabotage by the prisoners of war forced to make them.
The Telegraph: Do you have a Second World War bomb in your back garden (and what to do about it)
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