An unexploded German bomb from WWII has been uncovered at a building site in Southampton, England.

Hampshire police said the 45kg (100lb) device was found by construction workers in London Road at 1005 GMT.

A 200m (220yd) area was cordoned off and buildings evacuated.

Some people are now being allowed back in but the device is still being inspected by a team from the Royal Engineers who hope to move it soon.

Office workers and other people were being allowed back into the cordoned off area if they had a legitimate reason to go back.

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A collection of memorabilia from Hiroshima after the nuclear bomb strike is set to hit the auction block.

Now a roof tile from the Sairenji Temple, which was handed to a British tourist by the chief priest, is to go under the hammer along with other macabre items next month in Lincolnshire.

Other lots include a signed picture of a crippled man with an injured back caused by the huge explosion and a signed parchment from Sairenji Temple’s Rev. S. T. Katsaki.

The lot also features a tourist map and eight postcards showing the devastated city and the Japanese surrender on the USS Missouri in Tokyo bay in September 1945.

Charles Donald Albury, the co-pilot of the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki has died of congestive heart failure, aged 88.

During the Second World War, he helped fly the B-29 Bockscar that dropped the weapon on Aug. 9, 1945. He also witnessed the deployment of the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima three days earlier as a pilot for a support plane. His plane dropped instruments to measure the magnitude of the blast and levels of radioactivity for the Hiroshima mission led by Col. Paul Tibbets Jr.

“When Tibbets dropped the bomb, we dropped our instruments and made our left turn,” Mr Albury told Time magazine four years ago. “Then this bright light hit us and the top of that mushroom cloud was the most terrifying but also the most beautiful thing you’ve ever seen in your life. Every colour in the rainbow seemed to be coming out of it.”