It’s quite something to think the children have been playing on bombs and it’s been a really challenging situation,” Wooler councilor Mark Mather said.

The discovery came as a construction project was underway at the playground in Northumberland. More than 150 bombs from World ...

It is believed the area where the playground was initially built was used as a Home Guard training ground and the bombs were buried at the end of the war.

Scores of unexploded bombs dating from World War II have been recovered from a children’s playground in northern England ...