Video: First World War shell detonated in Harper Adams field

Bomb disposal experts have used a field at Harper Adams University to detonate a First World War shell found in a garden in Newport, Shropshire.

Scott Kirby, farms manager at the university, took the “unusual request” to use a field for the controlled explosion on Wednesday morning (16 March).

“Contrary to rumours we haven’t taken mole control to the next level,” Mr Kirby quipped on Twitter.

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