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It’s quite something to think the children have been playing on bombs and it’s been a really challenging situation,” Wooler councilor Mark Mather said.

It is believed the area where the playground was initially built was used as a Home Guard training ground and the bombs were buried at the end of the war, the BBC reported. "I never thought as a ...