{"id":38036,"date":"2025-09-26T20:04:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T20:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/work-paused-after-historic-mortar-bombs-found-at-building-site\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T20:04:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T20:04:46","slug":"work-paused-after-historic-mortar-bombs-found-at-building-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/work-paused-after-historic-mortar-bombs-found-at-building-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Work paused after historic mortar bombs found at building site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Work has been paused at a Coleraine building site after World War Two-era mortar bombs were discovered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Last week Army Technical Officers (ATO) carried out a controlled explosion found  in the Strand Road site on an object before declaring it safe. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">In July, a suspected World War Two bomb was <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c9vrdve8844o\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 jZoZnB\">discovered in the same area.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Radius Housing said it is seeking to engage specialist contractors to undertake a detailed survey of the site before any further works take place.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">A spokesperson for Radius Housing said that &#8220;during the preparatory works on this site, archeological investigations discovered a number of unexploded devices, which are believed to date from WW2. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">&#8220;These devices were made safe by the MOD. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">&#8220;The safety of staff, contractors and neighbours is a priority, and this will be our main consideration in our plans and preparation for further works,&#8221; the spokesperson added. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c62q05jnp47o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work has been paused at a Coleraine building site after World War Two-era mortar bombs were discovered. Last week Army Technical Officers (ATO) carried out a controlled explosion found in the Strand Road site on an object before declaring it safe. In July, a suspected World War Two bomb was discovered in the same area. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1521,630,1107,12021,12020,1482,81],"class_list":["post-38036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-ireland","tag-bombs","tag-building","tag-historic","tag-mortar","tag-paused","tag-site","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38038,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38036\/revisions\/38038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}