BOMB disposal experts have been called to a North Yorkshire town today, after workmen found what were believed to be unexploded munitions.

Workers laying a new driveway at Derwent Mount in York Road, Malton, discovered what appeared to be two unexploded bombs while digging up the old road surface.

Brian Abbott runs the veterinary practise, Baker, McVeigh and Abbott Equine Vets and said: “We’re doing some digging in the garden, and just excavated a bit of driveway and we found what looked like two mortar bombs.

“About the size of a wine bottle, with a narrow end.

“One was obviously empty, just a casing. The other it was difficult to tell. We didn’t want to get too close.”

Police were at the scene and a bomb disposal team was called.

He added that there is “an extremely low risk” of anything happening but staff have been sent home and workmen in an adjacent property have also been evacuated. He himself has been advised to stay indoors. 

One worker at the veterinary practice said she had been told not to come in to work by the site owner, and the workers had also found what appeared to be a number of rifle cartridges.

She said: "Apparently there used to be a Dad's Army, Home Guard kind of thing down the road, so obviously there were pretty active."

Mr Abbott said the bomb disposal team examined all the items found, and said there were no live explosives. The items were removed by the Army.