A German naval artillery shell dating back to World War Two was detonated after being discovered by a metal detectorist. HM Coastguard said the man found it on mud flats about one mile off Canvey ...

The young explorer believed it to be a gas canister until his dad, Adam Makwell, 47, told him that he had stumbled across a WW2 bomb – at ... from the two metre long shell – which when ...