Postman

According to Reuters sources british police are evacuating the central of Birmingham at the moment... There might be over 30 000 people over the city at the moment because the area has a lot of pubs and restaurants... Police are telling people to leave central and go home...

They cannot say what kind of threath is it... but the investigations are in way and police takes the threath very seriously....

Postman

Maggie aka Sarah

Not clear exactly what is going on.... except that the downtown/entertainment district has been evacuated. The evacuation sounds like that the authorities in Birmingham being cautious in reaction to a possible threat. Apparently a suspicious parcel was exploded in a controlled manner... but it didn't contain any explosives.

Here's a link to posts from people in Birmingham on bbc.co.uk:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/4668545.stm

And here's a link to the article about the evacution by bbc.co.uk:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4668313.stm

Maggie

Postman

Thanks for the links Maggie

Here is news realted to it from www. sky.com

POLICE DEFEND EVACUATION

A "serious and credible" terror threat led to the evacuation of Birmingham city centre last night, according to the chief of West Midlands Police.

Around 20,000 Saturday night revellers were evacuated after police received an intelligence warning.


Broad Street entertainment district and the Chinese quarter were shut down, and the A38 inner ring road into the city was also closed to traffic.

Four controlled explosions were carried out on a bus in Corporation Street near the Square Peg pub last night, although officers said the item destroyed had not posed a threat.

Bomb disposal squad officers also examined a suspicious package at the Travelodge hotel in Broad Street.

The device, a box with wires hanging out and a switch on top, was later found to be harmless.

Police said they did not believe the alert was connected with Thursday's London bombings.

West Midlands Chief Constable Paul Scott-Lee said the threat police received was "credible and threatened the lives of people in the city centre," but refused to reveal what it was.

He dismissed suggestions that police had over-reacted, saying: "There was an intelligence report which posed a serious threat to people in the centre of Birmingham.

"It was not a false threat. It was a serious threat.

"We put practiced plans into action and 20,000 people were evacuated safely. The public responded magnificently."

Mr Scott-Lee said further inquiries were being made into the threat and that there would be a higher police presence on the streets of Birmingham following the incident.

The drama began at around 7.45pm last night when West Midlands Police warned the public to avoid travelling into the city centre and vehicles were not allowed past the A38 inner ring road.

The city's bars, clubs, restaurants and hotels were initially advised to go about their business as usual, but at around 8.40pm police said they had ordered the evacuation of large parts of the city centre.