A mum and daughter are lucky to be alive after a World War 2 grenade they found on the beach burst into flames in their kitchen sink.
Jodie Crews and eight-year-old Isabella first thought their discovery could have been a fossil or old bone and appealed on social media to help identify it.
Jodie, 38, said: "I posted photos on fossil and archaeology sites and had lots of replies but no one suggested it could be a grenade. "One woman thought it looked like whale vomit and said I could find out by poking it with a hot pin.
She said a puff of white smoke would come out." Instead, Jodie and her daughter received the shock of their lives when the grenade suddenly burst into flames in their council house in Deal, Kent.
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