{"id":436424,"date":"2026-02-20T16:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/436424\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T16:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:54:08","slug":"gatwick-live-airport-evacuated-after-man-with-firearms-arrested-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/436424\/","title":{"rendered":"Gatwick LIVE: Airport evacuated after &#8216;man with firearms&#8217; arrested | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gatwick Express, Thameslink and Southern Rail have all confirmed all lines are &#8220;now open&#8221; at Gatwick Airport&#8217;s train station.<\/p>\n<p>In a shared statement on social media, the rail companies said: &#8220;All lines are now open through Gatwick Airport and trains can call here once more<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are now working on getting Thameslink, Southern and Gatwick Express services that run to, from or through Gatwick Airport back on time<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For all journeys, you can now travel using your usual route, but journey times could still be extended &#8211; please allow an additional 30 minutes to reach your destination.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gatwick Express, Thameslink and Southern Rail have all confirmed all lines are &#8220;now open&#8221; at Gatwick Airport&#8217;s train&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[390,84,30143,16072,59,43030,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-436424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-breaking-news","tag-business","tag-evacuation","tag-gatwick-airport","tag-gb","tag-travel-chaos","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436424","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=436424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}