Bomb scares, burgers and a very different lockdown experience

Team GB taekwondo star Lauren Williams tells Will Jennings about her experience of the coronavirus-enforced hiatus

Lauren Williams of Great Britain has enjoyed a different lockdown (Getty Images)

Bomb scares and burgers weren’t quite the lockdown experience Lauren Williams had in mind.

The Blackwood-born taekwondo star has had one of the more eventful lay-offs during lockdown, being evacuated from her home on VE Day after her dad, Allan, discovered a suspected bomb during a spot of gardening.

Closer analysis revealed it was only a fence post but that didn’t stop her nearest three streets being evacuated, with socially-distant celebrations to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II being temporarily halted.