WW2 bomb prompts evacuations in parts of Portsmouth
Homes and a shopping and leisure centre in Portsmouth have been evacuated after a World War Two German bomb was found.
Trains between Portsmouth and Southsea and Portsmouth Harbour are suspended, and ferry services have been affected.
The device, discovered by a dredging barge on the seabed in Portsmouth Harbour at about 05:00 GMT, is due to be towed to a detonation site.
Cross-channel ferries to and from Portsmouth were suspended earlier when a 500m exclusion zone was set up.
Ahead of the operation to move the bomb, police evacuated both the shopping and residential areas of Gunwharf... read more
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