{"id":322996,"date":"2025-12-18T15:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/322996\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T15:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:37:10","slug":"bomb-disposal-robot-destroys-labour-mp-christmas-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/322996\/","title":{"rendered":"Bomb disposal robot destroys Labour MP Christmas cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Metropolitan Police bomb disposal robot destroyed a box of Labour MPs&#8217; unsent Christmas cards that had triggered a lockdown around Parliament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Roads around Parliament Square were blocked off by police at about 07.30 GMT on Thursday to allow the robot to inspect a package that had been left in Victroria Tower Gardens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Officers confirmed the item was non-suspicious following an investigation and the area was reopened an hour later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Remnants found at the site included parts of Christmas cards decorated with pictures drawn by children intended for Labour MPs and constituency offices, some bearing MPs&#8217; addresses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Metropolitan Police bomb disposal robot destroyed a box of Labour MPs&#8217; unsent Christmas cards that had triggered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-322996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322996","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=322996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}