A dad and his two sons stumbled on a smoking WWII bomb during a morning stroll at the beach. Oliver Tanton Brown, 40, was telling his sons Sammy, eight, and Jacob, five, about the weird and wonderful things that can wash up on the shore when they discovered the unexploded bomb.
The quick thinking trio were praised for alerting coastguards who sent a bomb squad to detonate the weapon at Warren Beach in Folkestone, Kent.
The family, from Hythe, had been crabbing by the warren on Friday when they spotted the wartime relic and soon realised it was a smoking bomb.
When little Jacob noticed smoke coming from the mysterious object, Oliver took the boys back to the car and called the coastguard.
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