Good Idea Of The Week

Inviting pupils to show their classmates and teachers some unusual object they have collected is potentially a good idea but can be fraught with problems, as the staff at Orchard Junior School in the Hampshire village of Dibden Purlieu found out.

One of their little dears brought in what the police described as “a potentially unexploded ordnance”, an unexploded bomb to you and me, to thrill and amaze their friends. The school took an altogether more serious view and range up the police who called in the bomb squad.

The school was evacuated at 1.30 pm, the item taken away and then subsequently destroyed as a precaution.

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