{"id":347069,"date":"2026-01-01T22:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T22:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/347069\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T22:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T22:06:08","slug":"blackpool-explosives-alert-boy-detained-under-mental-health-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/347069\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackpool explosives alert boy detained under Mental Health Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A 16-year-old boy who was arrested on suspicion of explosives offences after potentially dangerous material was found in Blackpool has been detained under the Mental Health Act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dozens of residents had to leave their homes after Lancashire Police found &#8220;items of concern&#8221; &#8211; discovered to be improvised firework explosives &#8211; at a property in Gloucester Avenue at 11:30 GMT on New Year&#8217;s Eve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Evacuations saw residents of several streets forced to see in the new year at the Stanley Park Sports Centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police said the boy had been held under mental health legislation &#8220;following a further assessment&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 16-year-old boy who was arrested on suspicion of explosives offences after potentially dangerous material was found in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-347069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347069","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=347069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}