{"id":299328,"date":"2025-12-04T21:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T21:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/299328\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T21:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T21:46:10","slug":"major-incident-in-derby-as-200-homes-evacuated-and-two-arrested-over-explosives-offences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/299328\/","title":{"rendered":"Major incident in Derby as 200 homes evacuated and two arrested over explosives offences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A police spokesperson confirmed the evacuations were a precaution but that residents in the affected areas should be prepared to be out of their homes for 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The areas affected in their &#8220;entirety&#8221; by the evacuation zone are Vulcan Street, Reeves Road and Shaftesbury Crescent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harrington Street, from Holcombe Street to Vulcan Street; Baseball Drive, up to Columbo Street, and Cambridge Street at Reeves Road and Shaftesbury Crescent are also within the exclusion zone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In an update at 20:00 on Thursday, the force confirmed evacuated residents &#8220;will not be able to return to their homes this evening &#8211; but will be able to access their properties for a short time if urgently required&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A statement said officers were still carrying out work in the area, and said further updates would follow after a meeting on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Supt Becky Webster said: &#8220;I want to thank all those who have been affected by today&#8217;s evacuation for their understanding and response.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Being asked to leave your home under such circumstances is understandably concerning and the support that the emergency services have had has been excellent.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A police spokesperson confirmed the evacuations were a precaution but that residents in the affected areas should be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-299328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299328","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=299328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}