{"id":4240,"date":"2023-06-07T12:18:19","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T12:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/?p=4240"},"modified":"2023-06-07T12:18:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T12:18:21","slug":"happening-now-westminster-on-lockdown-downing-street-and-whitehall-closed-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/happening-now-westminster-on-lockdown-downing-street-and-whitehall-closed-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Happening Now: Westminster on LOCKDOWN, Downing Street and Whitehall CLOSED OFF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Westminster is currently on lockdown, while Downing Street and Whitehall are closed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to witnesses at the scene, an evacuation is underway following the discovery of a suspicious package on Whitehall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They were called at 12:13pm on Wednesday and remain in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Road closures are in place but are expected to be lifted after police determined the package to not be suspicious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>City of Westminster Police tweeted: <em>&#8220;The item has been assessed as not suspicious and road closures are being lifted.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow <a href=\"http:\/\/savebritain.org\">www.savebritain.org<\/a> for more updates. <\/p>\n<!-- wpsso rrssb get buttons: buttons on archive option not enabled -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Westminster is currently on lockdown, while Downing Street and Whitehall are closed. According to witnesses at the scene, an evacuation is underway following the discovery of a suspicious package on &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Happening Now: Westminster on LOCKDOWN, Downing Street and Whitehall CLOSED OFF\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/happening-now-westminster-on-lockdown-downing-street-and-whitehall-closed-off\/#more-4240\" aria-label=\"More on Happening Now: Westminster on LOCKDOWN, Downing Street and Whitehall CLOSED OFF\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[116,216,287,288],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4242,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240\/revisions\/4242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}