A Welsh couple have survived a decades-long near-miss after a live bomb they’d been using as a garden ornament was finally taken and destroyed. Sian and Jeffrey Edwards said the bomb was over 100 years old and had been standing upright in their garden for a long time – Sian even said she would bang her trowel against it to get the dirt off. A police officer spotted the bomb, and a disposal squad took it to an unused quarry, where they discovered it still had a live charge and promptly blew it up. Once the Edwards got over the shock, they took a sentimental turn, with Jeffrey saying the bomb “was an old friend. I’m so sorry that the poor old thing was blown to pieces.” He needn’t despair yet, though, with emergency services in the UK still fielding 20 callouts a year for undetonated explosives. Plenty of fish in the sea…