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From article at CBC

LONDON - An underground Cold War nuclear bunker set in the picturesque English countryside has been sold on the auction site eBay.

It was sold by an unidentified private owner for 20,600 pounds ($31,000) Monday after more than 40 bids were received.

The bunker was built by the Royal Observer Corps at the height of the Cold War in 1959 to monitor the anticipated spread of radiation after a nuclear blast.

Along with hundreds of other bunkers spread throughout Britain, it was decommissioned in 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union dramatically lowered the threat of a full-scale nuclear war.

The two-room bunker, located 15 feet (4.5 metres) beneath the ground, comes equipped with a phone, a chemical toilet and several air shafts. It is located in the Derbyshire Peak District 160 miles (260 kilometres) northwest of London.

There are two other decommissioned ROC bunkers for sale on eBay, with prices starting at around 6,000 pounds ($9,000). The advertisements promise the buyers a unique piece of Cold war memorabilia that can be used on weekends.

Jed Dodd, who sold a ROC bunker several years ago, said some people are drawn to the bunkers but quickly lose interest.

"People buy with dreams, but they soon get disillusioned," he said. "There are not meant to be lived in, and they're in the middle of nowhere."

From article in The Local

A 13-year-old boy was found dead on Wednesday evening in a 30 metre deep ventilation shaft by Slussen in central Stockholm.

The boy had told his parents that he was heading to Slussen, a key transport junction, but when he had not got in touch and did not answer his mobile phone the police were informed.

"He was later found after a friend showed how it was possible to get into the system of tunnels. When the police patrol came as far as a door where the lock had been busted open they decided to go down into the shaft, where they found the body," Magnus Berntsen at the police told news agency TT.

"It is strange that a door to a 30 metre deep shaft is not welded shut just closed with a lock that can be easily busted open," he added.

According to the police it remains unclear why the boy was at the location and whether he had been on his own or with a friend. But there is no suspicion of a crime having been committed, Berntsen said.

Slussen is a central road and metro junction in Stockholm named after the locks that divide Lake Mälaren from the Baltic Sea.

Slussen has long been admired as an example of ingenious traffic and urban planning but as it was built before Sweden shifted to right-hand traffic does not work as it was designed. In recent decades it has become progressively more dilapidated and proposals have been submitted for a major redevelopment.

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