Plymouth bomb heading out to sea as Army loads Nazi device onto boat

Army experts have started the nerve-shredding mission to shift a live Nazi bomb through the streets of Plymouth after one of the largest ever UK peacetime evacuations - while locals used the incident as an excuse for a pint.

Hundreds of offices, shops, schools and houses have been cleared to allow an Army convoy to move the 500kg ordinance through the naval city.

Experts decided the bomb - found by a father digging the foundations for his daughter's new extension - would cause too much damage if they detonate it where it lies, potentially destroying multiple homes and risking lives.

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