Children in the English town of Wooler in Northumberland are temporarily without a playground after workers found 176 ...

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

January, almost 200 bombs were discovered in Wooler, a town in the north of England. A total of 176 bombs dating back to the ...

Although the devices found during construction work were practice bombs, they can be harmful. Officials said there could be ...

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

A chance discovery led officials in northern England to uncover more than 100 practice bombs from World War II buried underneath a playground.

It’s quite something to think the children have been playing on bombs and it’s been a really challenging situation,” Wooler councilor Mark Mather said.

Scotts Park in Wooler in Northumberland, England, in January, according to multiple reports. Northumbria Police said in a ...

A cache of more than 170 unexploded practice bombs dating back to World War II has been found under a playground in the ...

So far, 176 bombs have been recovered in the area, and excavators working in the area are expected to find many more.

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.

A total of 176 World War Two bombs have now been discovered under a children's playpark and it is feared more will be ...