Police evacuate entire Birmingham city centre!
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City shut down after threat
From correspondents in London
10jul05
POLICE are evacuating thousands of people from the centre of Britain's second largest city, Birmingham, after receiving a threat.
"West Midlands police ... are now closing down the Broad Street entertainment zone and asking people to leave Birmingham town centre and go home," said a police spokesman.
"Our inquiries are ongoing. We're not going into the nature of the threat."
Roads were being blocked.
A West Midlands Police spokeswoman said the inner ring road to the city was closed off at 8pm (5am AEST) and an order given for bars to be evacuated in the Broad Street entertainment zone 40 minutes later.
From correspondents in London
10jul05
POLICE are evacuating thousands of people from the centre of Britain's second largest city, Birmingham, after receiving a threat.
"West Midlands police ... are now closing down the Broad Street entertainment zone and asking people to leave Birmingham town centre and go home," said a police spokesman.
"Our inquiries are ongoing. We're not going into the nature of the threat."
Roads were being blocked.
A West Midlands Police spokeswoman said the inner ring road to the city was closed off at 8pm (5am AEST) and an order given for bars to be evacuated in the Broad Street entertainment zone 40 minutes later.
We shouldn't, no.
How many attacks has Britain suffered in the last decade?
Everything's going to be heightened now though, finger on the panic button as it were.
Besides being a horrible way to live, it costs money & is a severe inconvenience - yes, I recognize dying to be the biggest inconvenience of all.
How many attacks has Britain suffered in the last decade?
Everything's going to be heightened now though, finger on the panic button as it were.
Besides being a horrible way to live, it costs money & is a severe inconvenience - yes, I recognize dying to be the biggest inconvenience of all.
i half agree with what your saying but things do need to be changed, i heard there gonna be putting these new things at train stations, like a sort of thing that will see if a person is carry any weapons, etc, i think this is a good thing, more security means more saftey(although i dont agree with things like ID cards)
This is very interesting. There's a state here in the USA called Alabama. Alabama has a city named Birmingham. Back in the day, Birmingham was known as "Bombing-ham." That's because the KKK would constantly blow things up there. Can you believe the coincidence?
This rumor could very well be true...remember Bombing-ham.
This rumor could very well be true...remember Bombing-ham.