Bomb squad called out over artillery shell in Church Stretton garden
Bomb disposal experts were called out after a 150-year-old artillery shell was found in the garden of a home in Shropshire.
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Police were called to a house in Church Stretton with a report that a "shell shaped object" had been found in the garden by the owners.
It was described as being "bullet-shaped and metal and covered in mud".
Experts from the Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) regiment of the Army attended and confirmed it was a Victorian-era artillery shell and that it contained no explosives.
The item was removed, but it is unknown how it came to be in Church Stretton.
