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'The advice is to ring and run and that's what I'm going to do': The hair-raising moment a magnet fisherman pulled a Second World War bomb out of the Rochdale Canal
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukmajor police operation when he discovered the 18lb Second World War shell in Newton Heath. The father-of-two cast his rope in the water at 7am hoping for a relaxing morning taking part in his favourite hobby.But less than an hour later, he was on the phone to the police informing them of his discovery.Emergency services flooded the scene and the bomb squad were called to secure the site on Friday, October 2.A nearby factory was evacuated, roads were closed and trains disrupted for more than four hours while experts investigated the shell.Staff at businesses in the area could not get into work due to the road closures and a nearby bakery could not retrieve deliveries.Nick, who always take any scrap metal he fishes home with him, said: "It.
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