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BBC News
3 days ago
- General
- BBC News
Great Park homes evacuated due to suspected unexploded device
People have been evacuated from their homes following reports of a suspected unexploded Police said it received reports about the device on Swinhoe Road in the Great Park area of Newcastle at 12:20 said a number of nearby properties had been evacuated as a precaution and emergency services were in force's explosive ordnance disposal team was due to attend the scene, it added. Great Park Community Centre posted on social media that it had shut for the day after being advised to evacuate. Follow BBC Newcastle on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook and Instagram.
Yahoo
11-05-2025
- Yahoo
Bomb squad called after magnet fisher hooks 'device'
Part of a village was cordoned off after a suspected bomb was found in a river. The object was found by a person magnet fishing - which involves dangling a magnet attached to a rope into water to locate metallic finds - in the River Bure off Station Road in Hoveton, near Wroxham, on the Norfolk Broads, at about 13:40 BST on Saturday. Norfolk Police placed a 100m (340ft) cordon at the scene and closed the road. The cordon was lifted at about 16:50 after the Army's explosive ordnance disposal team from Colchester assessed the object and established it was not an unexploded ordnance device, police said. Follow Norfolk news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X. Norfolk Police
Yahoo
11-05-2025
- Yahoo
Bomb squad called after magnet fisher hooks 'device'
Part of a village was cordoned off after a suspected bomb was found in a river. The object was found by a person magnet fishing - which involves dangling a magnet attached to a rope into water to locate metallic finds - in the River Bure off Station Road in Hoveton, near Wroxham, on the Norfolk Broads, at about 13:40 BST on Saturday. Norfolk Police placed a 100m (340ft) cordon at the scene and closed the road. The cordon was lifted at about 16:50 after the Army's explosive ordnance disposal team from Colchester assessed the object and established it was not an unexploded ordnance device, police said. Follow Norfolk news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X. Norfolk Police
BBC News
11-05-2025
- BBC News
Hoveton partly cordoned off after suspected bomb found in river
Part of a village was cordoned off after a suspected bomb was found in a object was found by a person magnet fishing - which involves dangling a magnet attached to a rope into water to locate metallic finds - in the River Bure off Station Road in Hoveton, near Wroxham, on the Norfolk Broads, at about 13:40 BST on Police placed a 100m (340ft) cordon at the scene and closed the cordon was lifted at about 16:50 after the Army's explosive ordnance disposal team from Colchester assessed the object and established it was not an unexploded ordnance device, police said. Follow Norfolk news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
