{"id":779874,"date":"2026-09-23T10:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T10:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/779874\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T10:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T10:40:12","slug":"falmouth-ww2-unexploded-bomb-about-2000-residents-evacuated-as-experts-deal-with-ordnance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/779874\/","title":{"rendered":"Falmouth WW2 unexploded bomb: About 2,000 residents evacuated as experts deal with ordnance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;We don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s happening&#8217;published at 10:34 BST<\/p>\n<p>10:34 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Barbara Ramsay is standing holding a pram which has a small brown dog in it. She is smiling and wearing sunglasses.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/12570147-84e6-48eb-844f-f1adf3f97822.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1599\" height=\"900\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As residents from the evacuation zone arrive at All Saints Church in Killigrew Street for refreshments, some of them have been speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/live\/bbc_radio_cornwall\" class=\"ssrcss-ztter6-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Radio Cornwall<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Barbara Ramsay said she didn&#8217;t think there had been enough communication about the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s still confusing, we don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s happening at all,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said no-one had knocked on her door to tell her to leave and she was worried about one of her neighbours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There&#8217;s one old girl sat up there and I don&#8217;t even know if she can get a taxi because they do all the school runs,&#8221; Barbara explained.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Maureen Gill is smiling as she stands in from of a pebble-dash house. She has short white hair and is wearing a cream-coloured top.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/4901a6c2-ebf0-4bcd-9bb1-413f60ce9b70.jpg.webp\"  width=\"2840\" height=\"1597\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Maureen Gill, 89, said she didn&#8217;t know the cordon was for a bomb and thought the road she&#8217;s lived on for 32 years had been closed for roadworks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When she listened to the radio and found it was because of an unexploded bomb she went and spoke to the team keeping watch over the road closure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I can&#8217;t say I was hugely panicked but I was really nosey and wanted to know what was going on,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alex Campbell is standing in front of a stone wall. She has long dark red hair and is wearing sunglasses and a black short-sleeved top.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/cad7ad3a-f388-4140-81b9-69daee7a29b0.jpg.webp\"  width=\"3199\" height=\"1799\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another Falmouth resident Alex Campbell, 32, also wished more information was available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You hear there&#8217;s a bomb and it&#8217;s quite scary,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A little more transparency about the situation would be helpful in terms of navigating it and actually what to do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s quite dystopian but hopefully nothing to be worried about,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;We don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s happening&#8217;published at 10:34 BST 10:34 BST As residents from the evacuation zone arrive at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-779874","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\/779874","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=779874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}