This was the moment explosion experts blew up a World War ll bomb found on farmland near a Midland village.

A bomb squad was called to a field near Walton Hall and Wellesbourne village in Warwickshire yesterday, December 1.

The squad then carried out a controlled explosion at the scene this morning.

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Footage, shared by Warwickshire Police , shows the bomb being detonated.

The force said: "Finding long-obsolete military munitions in the Warwickshire countryside might seem unlikely - but it happens a few times every year.

"It’s usually from the Second World War - and often it’s old British-stuff left over by soldiers during training or abandoned by the Home Guard when the war ended and they didn’t know what

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