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Mortar bomb recovered from Windermere

Army divers have recovered an old mortar bomb from a Cumbrian lake.

The device was found in about 9ft (3m) of water in the Bowness Bay area of Windermere by local divers on a night exercise on Thursday.

They confirmed that the shell, which is believed to date back to World War II, was harmless.

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