Bomb experts were deployed to a Dorset beach on Monday morning after the discovery by a concerned member of the public of what was presumed to be an unexploded weapon.
- Bomb experts rushed to a Dorset beach after a member of the public reported a suspected unexploded weapon.
- The "weapon" was determined to be an upturned saucepan.
- The Royal Navy bomb disposal team was called in after emergency services were unable to determine what it was from pictures.
- There are an estimated 500,000 bombs in Great Britain's territorial waters.
- Emergency services respond to as many as 20 callouts to unexploded armaments on UK beaches each year.
