Police Evacuate Birmingham Centre

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Police in Birmingham in the Midlands are evacuating the city centre.
Earlier they issued a warning they had received intelligence suggesting a threat to the area.

"Our response needs to be proportionate in the action we're taking and in informing the public," a spokeswoman for West Midlands Police said.

Police are now closing down the Birmingham Broad street entertainment zone and asking people to go home. A statement will be released shortly.
 
BIRMINGHAM TERROR THREAT (another false alarm?)


Thousands of people are being evacuated from Birmingham city centre after police issued a terror warning.

Bomb squad officers have reportedly carried out a series of controlled explosions in the Broad Street entertainment district.


West Midlands Police said no vehicles are being allowed past the inner ring road.

Around 200 bars, restaurants and clubs are being emptied and searched

A spokeswoman said: "West Midlands Police are issuing a public warning to people after they received intelligence to suggest a threat to the city centre.

"Our response needs to be proportionate in the actions we are taking and informing the public.

"We are not closing bars, restaurants or clubs but we are asking for them to be searched and for people entering the premises to be searched."

Outlining details of the road closures, the spokeswoman continued: "There will be a higher police presence in the city centre and access by vehicles will be limited.

"No vehicles will be allowed past the inner ring road into the city centre."

Allan Sartori, a Birmingham club owner, said police appeared to have the situation under control in the city centre.

He said evacuating the city centre would have cost "a lot of people a lot of money".

But he added: "People's lives are far more important than money in a situation like this."
 
Good Morning.
The UK are to withdraw 5000 of it't 8000 Troops stationed in IRAQ.
This will take place in the early part of 2006.

Good timing, what!
 
Are we back to the days of "for the price of a few phone calls the IRA have closed down the city of London" (no bombs were actually planted but, because the appropriate codes were given, the warnings had to be taken seriously). Personally I think there's a big difference. The IRA weren't a figment of the imagination of the American government.
 
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