Two litter pickers loaded a live First World War bomb into their car, thinking it was just an old gas canister.
Rachel Wills and Simon Briscombe were doing their usual Monday riverside litter-pick when they found the rusty cylinder. They put it in their car with other rubbish and drove home – over speed bumps – unaware of the danger.
Only when they scraped the mud off at home half a mile away did they realise the peril. Rachel said: “It was frothing.
