HMS Daedalus Evacuation
An evacuation thought to be the largest of its kind in peace-time Britain is under way to allow bombs to be removed from a former Royal Navy airfield. Roads will be closed each Monday during the operaton at HMS Daedalus in Lee-on-the-Solent.
Military experts are removing 20 World War II pipe bombs are still buried at the site of the former HMS Daedalus Royal Navy airbase in Lee-on-the-Solent.
Up to 3,000 people have been asked to stay away from their homes every Monday between 0930 - 1600 BST. The work is scheduled to finish on October 23rd.
During the clearance by the Army, the evacuation of residents and businesses will take within an exclusion zone of up to 750 metres from the airfield every Monday. Roads in the area are being closed and 900 homes will be affected.
Its worse...in Algeria hundreds of acres of arable land have been made useless thanks to the large number of mines the Germans sowed there....
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