{"id":371005,"date":"2026-01-15T08:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T08:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/371005\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T08:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T08:45:07","slug":"evacuations-in-exmouth-and-plymouth-as-bomb-teams-deal-with-two-incidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/371005\/","title":{"rendered":"Evacuations in Exmouth and Plymouth as bomb teams deal with two incidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Situation in Exmouthpublished at 06:34 GMT<\/p>\n<p>06:34 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Devon and Cornwall Police said on Wednesday a suspected unexploded<br \/>\nordnance was \u201cdredged out of the water&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Exmouth Leisure Centre was opened &#8220;for anyone being displaced<br \/>\nwho needs somewhere to go&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A bomb disposal team from the Midlands has been deployed to<br \/>\nExmouth, according to Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service, and they<br \/>\narrived in the seaside Devon town at about 19:25 GMT on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Road closed sign in Exmouth\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/d8fafd11-6781-4bd5-b199-563656c122d7.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1097\" height=\"818\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">East Devon District Council said military bomb disposal experts were on site assessing the device to identify the safest method of disposal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The local authority urged people to avoid the marina area until further notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Situation in Exmouthpublished at 06:34 GMT 06:34 GMT Devon and Cornwall Police said on Wednesday a suspected unexploded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-371005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}