{"id":563073,"date":"2026-05-02T22:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T22:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/563073\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T22:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T22:10:09","slug":"man-19-charged-after-bomb-hoax-at-peter-kay-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/563073\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 19, charged after bomb hoax at Peter Kay show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are grateful to everyone for their co-operation and understanding,&#8221; the police statement added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As always our priority is the safety of the public.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kay was about 45 minutes into his set when it was cut short.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for the NEC Group said that ticket holders would be  contacted with their next steps by the outlet they originally used.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Utilita Arena Birmingham shared an update on X on Saturday morning thanking attendees for their cooperation during the evacuation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The venue said Saturday&#8217;s show would be going ahead as planned as it outlined details of security measures it has in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The shows are part of Kay&#8217;s &#8220;Better Late Than Never&#8221; national tour which will see all profits donated to 12 leading cancer charities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The performer is also due to perform shows at Belfast, Liverpool, Sheffield and Leeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;We are grateful to everyone for their co-operation and understanding,&#8221; the police statement added. &#8220;As always our priority&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-563073","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\/563073","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=563073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}