The 1,000lb unexploded ordnance (main image), measuring five foot long, was found by construction workers in Southwark, south east London. A 200 metre cordon is in place at the old site of the Southwark Irish Pensioners centre, which went into lockdown after the explosive was reported to emergency services at 9.18am yesterday. More than 1,200 residents (some of the homes affected, inset left) within the exclusion zone and have been told they will not be allowed to return until the device has been safely disposed of. Army bomb disposal units were scrambled to the scene, while Southwark Council set up 'rest areas' for residents who had been made homeless by the incident.
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