"Police officers and Royal Bomb Disposal Unit securing the area, where a suspected unexploded WWII bomb was discovered by builders at The Grange in Southwark, London. The unexploded bomb is thought to be approximately 5ft long and 1000lbs in weight. © Tolga Akmen/LNP/Rex Features Police officers and Royal Bomb Disposal Unit securing the area, where a suspected unexploded WWII bomb was discovered by builders at The Grange in Southwark, London. The… Builders uncovered a huge unexploded German World War II bomb in London on Monday, prompting the evacuation of two schools and hundreds of homes. The bomb, measuring five feet long (1.5 metres) and weighing 1000 pounds (455 kilogrammes) lay undisturbed below a pensioners' centre for seven decades in a densely populated southeastern part of the British capital. "Seems our OAPs (old age pensioners) are hard as nails, drinking tea on top of a 1000lb bomb for 70 years," Lucas Green, a councillor in the riverside London borough of Southwark, wrote on Twitter." - Steve C, Team Marina