A BOMB disposal team was called in to blow up a bomb discovered on a beach by a metal detectorist.

The Second World War shell was found on Brean beach on Tuesday, but the team had to wait until yesterday to deal with it.

Burnham Coastguard members arrived on the beach in the morning expecting it to be covered by sand following two different tides.

But one of them spotted it glinting in the sunshine.

A spokesman said: "Despite the two tides it had remained firmly in place and the excess sand that was covering it had been washed away.

"We immediately set up a cordon to keep public clear and then we contacted our Coastguard Operations Centre and sent them an updated picture which they passed to the Explosive Ordnance Disposal team.

"They were just preparing to leave their base when they had a higher priority call come in, so we were instructed to sit tight and ensure no one approached the danger area, to pass the time in between steering the public around the cordon and getting some respite from the beating sun we took turns to keep a watchful eye along the beaches with binoculars."

After around six hours of holding the cordon, the EOD team arrived on Brean beach after dealing with their previous job and inspected the ordnance.

They decided to detonate it in situ and placed a small charge around the ordnance before exploding it.