Machine guns from a century ago, bolt action rifles older than that, submachine guns designed for WW2, anti-tank rifles ... of the biggest conflict in human history, years of storage and later ...

Mr Hopkins said he was not expecting to find any guns as the area had been dredged before in 2015. "There was a history of weapons found here before," he said. "[But] I don't know where they've ...

The initiative, which began on 13 November, has seen 143 guns given in to police across London. The WW2 weapons, which had been deactivated, are among five automatic guns to have been handed in.