{"id":578594,"date":"2026-05-11T19:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T19:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/578594\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T19:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T19:27:11","slug":"manchester-gay-village-hotel-evacuated-over-suspicious-chemical-smell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/578594\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester gay village hotel evacuated over &#8216;suspicious chemical smell&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A hotel in the heart of Manchester&#8217;s gay village has been evacuated after reports of a &#8220;smell causing suspicion&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A large section of Canal Street in the city centre is cordoned off and police said the evacuation was ordered as a &#8220;precautionary measure&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man, believed to be the occupant of a room in the hotel, has been detained and is being questioned. The room is being searched by officers with special equipment after the smell &#8211; &#8220;currently believed to be chemicals&#8221; &#8211; was reported. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Greater Manchester Police said: &#8220;No-one has been injured and we are working to establish the full circumstances.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A hotel in the heart of Manchester&#8217;s gay village has been evacuated after reports of a &#8220;smell causing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-578594","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\/578594","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=578594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}