We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. Danger UXB: The Heroic Story of the WWII Bomb Disposal Teams, by James Owen, Little, Brown RRP£20, 364 ...

The gallantry medal awarded to a bomb disposal novice blown up during the first weeks of the Blitz has sold at auction for £74,500. Ordinary Seaman Bennett Southwell had come to London to volunteer in ...

1979 miniseries produced for Thames Television by John Hawkesworth. Starring Anthony Andrews, Judy Geeson and Maurice Roeves. Thirteen one-hour episodes on four discs, released by A&E; Home Video. Not ...

Brian Ash is a young lieutenant who is assigned to a UXB unit in the early days of World War II. UXB (UneXploded Bomb) is the signal that an aerial bomb has not exploded. Ash's job is to deactivate ...

CONSTRUCTION of a £2million flood barrier could be hampered by unexploded bombs beneath Shoebury Common, it is feared. Experts at Southend Council, who are drawing up plans for the flood defence ...

The pair were photographed with two potentially deadly 120mm tank shells after finding them washed up in Dorset. One shocked mother who took this picture of them on her mobile phone said: “I thought ...

Dig carefully. It may have ended more than 60 years ago, but World War II is still affecting development. It is estimated that 10% of the bombs that the Luftwaffe rained down on the UK during the war ...

An unexploded Second World War bomb stopped work on a building site yesterday. Army Bomb Squad experts were called in when the device - believed to be a naval shell - suddenly appeared on top of a ...

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Our first series of time bombs have well and truly detonated, but our second series are ticking louder than ever. Here we light the fuses for the third lot. 18 Jun 2007 ...