A bit bigger than the normal shrimp

Fisherman took unexploded mine home to Shandwick

A village was evacuated after a fisherman netted an unexploded wartime mine and took it home with him.

Prawn fisherman Andrew Innes, 54, said the live part of the mine had been in his garden shed since he pulled it from the Cromarty Firth last Thursday.

Police were alerted after noon on Tuesday, and cordoned off Mr Innes's home in Shandwick.

Twenty nearby homes were evacuated before a Royal Navy bomb disposal team made the device safe.

Mr Innes recovered the unexploded mine from the waters of the Cromarty Firth, which was a major base for the Royal Navy during the two world wars.

The fisherman took the device back to port at Cromarty, dismantled it and then took the live part back home with him.

He said: "I didn't know there was anything dangerous about it at all. I have seen them before and it didn't look dangerous."

It's amazing he didn't blow himself to Kingdom Come.