Ushma Mistry
in Coventry

I've also been on the other side of the canal near Canal View, where residents were evacuated on Tuesday evening.

There were a few disgruntled people trying to get to work this morning because their usual route is across the canal bridge, but that remains cordoned off.

Police officers are stationed on either side of the bridge and people are having to find alternative routes.

From what I can see, activity on Sandy Lane itself appears fairly normal, with traffic still moving.

The restrictions seem to be concentrated around the residential area and the construction site, which was already fenced off before the bomb was discovered.

A theatre charity says an initiative at "a very busy hub" has been suspended following the evacuation.

Highly Sprung Performance co-director Sarah Worth said: "We were starting a project working with the RAF and we had our actors coming down to start that.

"So all of that has been suspended until tomorrow, so it's all been a bit disappointing."

Worth added it was an education project called Ground Control, "all about how we're using creativity and physical theatre to bring the STEM [science, technology, engineering and maths] curriculum to life and to think about future careers in space".

Councillor Angela Hopkins, who represents the Radford ward, urged members of the public not to go down to the scene.

She said: "A number of [people] used our rest centre, which the council set up at Central Library, and of those, the council found accommodation in hotels for a number of families.

"I'd urge everybody not to go down [to the scene]. The last thing the police need is people coming down there to take photos and videos, and they'll just get in the way.

"I'm in touch, getting regular updates on the situation, and I've got a meeting shortly with the police, which I hope will update us more on the situation."

Image source, Steve Rimmer

Bomb disposal expert Steve Rimmer told BBC CWR: "The idea is that sandbags [overwhelm] the top of the bomb with all that weight, so if an explosion does happen, most of the blast goes into the ground and just stops all the fragmentation coming out of the weapon.

"I spent eight years in the Army as a bomb disposal engineer and the last 15 years in the civilian sector, so we'll go on to construction sites where there's a likelihood of some UXO [unexploded ordnance] being found.

"There's probably around 100 of us across the country."

Bomb disposal expert Steve Rimmer has been explaining that in these cases, a team would arrive following a visit by an officer.

Explaining the process in similar sorts of situations, he told BBC CWR that the Army had a pager service, "they're on stand-by for this kind of thing".

"There'll be a BDO, a bomb disposal officer, which will come and assess the exact bomb and what suppression and protection needs to be put in place.

"Then another team will come out, they'll put in a lot of earthworks, a lot of sandbags in place, should the weapon explode.

"It's called a High Order, which is what it was designed to do, so if it does do that, then all the suppression's in place so all the infrastructure and people don't get injured by it."

Ushma Mistry
in Coventry

I'm at Harp Place, overlooking the construction site where the unexploded World War Two bomb was found, although the cordon means it's difficult to get a close look at what's happening.

From here I can see Army personnel on site, along with a large green military truck and other equipment being moved around. There is also a police presence, but most of the activity appears to be taking place within the construction site itself.

A shopkeeper opposite the site told me there had been a lot of police and military activity overnight, with vehicles going in and out from about 09:00 BST onwards.

However, he said he had not been given any further information and is waiting to find out what happens next.

Sean O'Brien said he hoped he would be able to return to his apartment at some point on Wednesday.

"They said to me yesterday they think it's a 50kg bomb and it might need circa 300 sandbags on top of it to help detonate, so it sounds like quite a serious bomb in fairness," he told BBC CWR.

"If [police] could have done anything different they could have told us it was going to take longer and to pack a bag just in case.

"But it is what is - we're glad they’ve found it and hopefully they can sort it out this morning.

"It was a bit of stressful day but we'll see what today brings - hopefully we can get back in our apartment."

A bomb disposal expert has told BBC CWR that if the bomb being dealt with "is a 50kg bomb, it's about the size of a dustbin".

Steve Rimmer added they were the "most common type dropped, because you could fit a lot of them in an aircraft".

"They can be fairly safe because the fusing mechanism didn't go off. They've failed because of some fault in the production process and unless you're messing around with them, they're fairly safe.

"They've been sat in the ground since the war, been undisturbed and they're not doing anything as long as you don't do anything untoward to them, they're fairly safe."

West Midlands Police has said a 100m cordon is in place.

After being unable to return home, Sean O'Brien and his partner had to find somewhere else to stay for the night while bomb disposal experts continued their work.

He said: "We stayed in the car but I eventually got a phone call from somebody at the police who was in charge with the bomb disposal. They said, 'Have you got anywhere to stay tonight?'

"They said Coventry City Council has given use of the central library as a rescue shelter if you've got nowhere to go.

"My partner has fibromyalgia and diabetes so a night sleeping on the floor wasn't appealing.

"We just had to try and find somewhere - we managed to get a hotel at a sensible rate and we're still here now waiting for an update."

Image source, Sean O'Brien

Sean O'Brien was among the residents who were evacuated from their apartment on Tuesday.

Speaking to BBC CWR on Wednesday morning, he said: "I was working from home yesterday. There was a buzz at the door and it was the police.

"They said that ‘you see the building site next door - we've just found an unexploded Second World War bomb'.

"It sort of makes sense, because before it was the business park in the 30s and 40s it used to be a factory that got bombed lots of times in the Second World War.

"They said we need you to leave, hopefully it will be two or three hours. Me and my partner Jessica went for a drive and got something to eat and hoped that it would be fine.

"When we got back it was cordoned off even more and were told we couldn't go back in - it's still ongoing."

Work was ongoing with Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) experts to assess the device, West Midlands Police said on Tuesday.

The force said it appreciated the co-operation of local residents, businesses and motorists, as emergency services and EOD "work through the safe disposal of the device".

Roads remain closed, after 96 homes were evacuated on Tuesday following the discovery of an unexploded World War Two bomb.

West Midlands Police said the device was discovered during construction work at Sandy Lane Business Park in Coventry on Tuesday afternoon.

The force said a 100m cordon had been put in place, with officers remaining at the scene overnight.

Army bomb disposal experts were assessing the device and the work could continue through the day.

Temporary accommodation was provided for residents last night in buildings such as the Central Library, although some said they had booked hotels for the night.