{"id":579599,"date":"2026-05-12T09:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T09:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/579599\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T09:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T09:50:10","slug":"man-arrested-over-hotel-explosive-device-in-manchesters-gay-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/579599\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested over hotel \u2018explosive device\u2019 in Manchester&#8217;s gay village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man has been arrested on suspicion of making an explosive device after a hotel in the heart of Manchester&#8217;s gay village was evacuated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx21v5egv07o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a large section of Canal Street<\/a> in the city centre was cordoned off after a suspicious smell came from the hotel room at 10:45 BST on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">GMP said the hotel guest was arrested and staff and other guests were evacuated. as a &#8220;precautionary measure&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The force said in an update that subsequent tests of the  chemical substances found in the hotel room had &#8220;ruled out any explosive risk&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested on suspicion of making an explosive device after a hotel in the heart&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-579599","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\/579599","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=579599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579599\/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=579599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}