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February 22, 2026
A fishing trip to remember: Instead of fish, they pulled out something that brought the police in record time
A father and his teenage son came across a mortar shell while magnet fishing in the River Stour, near Canford Magna in Dorset, southwest England.
TL;DR
- A father and son found a mortar shell while magnet fishing in the River Stour, Dorset.
- The fishing equipment was a recent birthday gift.
- The father identified the object as a WWI mortar shell and secured it away from the riverbank.
- Police cordoned off the area, and bomb disposal experts conducted a controlled explosion.
- The River Stour previously yielded a 1,400-year-old human skull in 2022.
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