One of the world's leading explosives experts today called for an urgent investigation of the wreck of the SS Montgomery - a warship packed with bombs and ammunition that sank off the Kent coast in 1944. Fred and Sangeeta link to David Johns
Maritime munitions expert Michael Fellows believes there has been no effort to establish the state of explosives aboard SS Montgomery in the Thames Estuary. Here is a clip from his interview in advance of a full item later.
A maritime munitions expert, Michael Fellows, says the cost of decommissioning explosives from the SS Montgomery would be in the region of £3m. The ship, packed with 1400 tons of explosives, has lain derelict in the Thames Estuary since 1944.
Mr Fellows thinks annual surveys of the ship, carried out for the Department for Transport by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, are not detailed enough as they look solely at the ship, not the state of the munitions.
He's warning that if the explosives were detonated, there could be a large loss of life locally and that plans to build an airport in the Estuary will require that the ship is made safe.
A major security alert at a busy airport has been sparked ... by a chocolate birthday cake. It set off an automatic alarm when it was detected in hand luggage.
Justin Barrett, from Kent, had bought the cake for his son's birthday and was about to fly out from Stansted when he was stopped and searched.
Security staff at first suspected the cake might contain explosives but it was given the all-clear. So what was in it that triggered the emergency?
Click below for the full report from Tom Savvides