{"id":622,"date":"2005-07-09T23:20:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-09T23:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/07\/09\/112094768737627644\/"},"modified":"2007-01-21T16:36:26","modified_gmt":"2007-01-21T16:36:26","slug":"birmingham-evacuated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/07\/birmingham-evacuated\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham evacuated"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/4668313.stm\">Birmingham city centre evacuated<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;No vehicles are being allowed past the inner ring road into the city centre, and there have also been reports of controlled explosions by police.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fingers crossed for the Brummies, eh?<\/p>\n<p><b>Update (23:30):<\/b> BBC now reporting that 20,000 people have been evacuated.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update 2:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jabbar.co.uk\/?p=305\">A Brum blog reports calm<\/a>, just 10 minutes from Broad Street, the heart of the scare &#8211; but no updates for a while. Last entry at 22:45 &#8211; &#8220;no panic really &#8211; just disappointed Friday night revellers and disgruntled (but safe) Brummies.&#8221; Let&#8217;s hope so.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/smalltownscribble.blogspot.com\/2005\/07\/birmingham-city-centre-evacuated.html\">Scribbles is investigating&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Update 3:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.west-midlands.police.uk\/onlinepress\/appeals.asp?id=648\">West Midlands police statement<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The bomb disposal squad has carried out 4 controlled explosions on a bus in Corporation Street, near the Square Pegg public house. This turned out to be a false call. The bomb disposal squad are however, still investigating another suspicious package in the Broad Street area.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would stress that there is nothing to suggest that this intelligence is connected with the incidents in London.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Sunday update:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/smalltownscribble.blogspot.com\/2005\/07\/old-mac-is-back-in-town.html\">Scribbles reports back<\/a> &#8211; and check the comments to this post for some interesting rumour and speculation. Seems an odd one, last night&#8230;<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birmingham city centre evacuated: &#8220;No vehicles are being allowed past the inner ring road into the city centre, and there have also been reports of controlled explosions by police.&#8221; Fingers crossed for the Brummies, eh? Update (23:30): BBC now reporting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/07\/birmingham-evacuated\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-london-terror-attacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}