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A local story at best. Unexploded WW2 bombs are discovered and dealt with relatively frequently.

One of the largest peacetime evacuations since World War 2, this is a 500lb bomb, and it's been the main story round here since Tuesday when it was discovered. The exclusion zone for the transportation of the bomb got to within a couple hundred feet of where I live, as they take it down the Torpoint Ferry ramp to begin the process of taking it out to sea to detonate it. This means the Torpoint Ferry is out of action, something very rare indeed, trains are not running between Liskeard & Plymouth, Plymouth Citybus and Stagecoach routes are severely disrupted. This is as big a deal as the Keyham shooting was a couple of years ago, and it definitely belongs on the national news.