Army shell lands near main railway line in Wiltshire
A Ministry of Defence investigation is under way after an artillery round went way off course on Army firing ranges, flew over two Wiltshire villages and exploded after thudding into a farmer’s field.The round landed at Patney, near Devizes, 300 metres from the Paddington-Penzance railway line, leaving a crater six feet in diameter and two feet deep. Farmer Andrew Snook told last night how he heard a tremendous bang far louder than the usual sound of distant firing practice on Salisbury…