{"id":139354,"date":"2025-09-15T17:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T17:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/139354\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T17:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T17:26:09","slug":"holyhead-live-schools-on-lockdown-as-armed-police-storm-welsh-town-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/139354\/","title":{"rendered":"Holyhead LIVE: Schools on lockdown as armed police storm Welsh town | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A statement has now been released by North Wales Police.<\/p>\n<p>They said: &#8220;We have received unconfirmed reports of a person seen carrying an axe in the Kingsland area of Holyhead this morning (Monday, 15 September).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Patrols have since been undertaken in this area, and searches remain ongoing to establish the circumstances of the reports.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>District Inspector Wayne Francis said: &#8220;There continues to be a visible police presence in Holyhead this afternoon for reassurance purposes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would emphasise that no reports of any threats against members of the public have been made to us.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Enquiries are ongoing and anyone with further information can contact us via our website or by calling 101, quoting reference C144229.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A statement has now been released by North Wales Police. They said: &#8220;We have received unconfirmed reports of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[390,49,50,51,47,52,48,3883,1220],"class_list":["post-139354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-breaking-news","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-towns","tag-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}