BINMEN had the surprise of their lives when they collected an unexploded bomb along with the trash.
Police received a call from a Serco employee just after 9am yesterday saying that on the morning round in Bishop's Waltham they had collected what he believed to be a six-pound live shell.
When police arrived at the Lower Lane depot they found the shell lying next to a 40-gallon oil drum in the yard and called in a bomb disposal team to deal with it.
When the team arrived at 10.30am they found it was a Carrier shell and after some debate decided to move it to a field on nearby Dean Farm to carry out a controlled explosion.
Police said the explosion was carried out at 12.25pm and the shell was found to contain only smoke and not explosives.
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