{"id":765560,"date":"2026-09-09T23:50:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T23:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/765560\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T23:50:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T23:50:21","slug":"male-youth-charged-after-bomb-threats-made-towards-east-kilbride-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/765560\/","title":{"rendered":"Male youth charged after &#8216;bomb threats&#8217; made towards East Kilbride high school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have charged a male youth in connection with alleged bomb threats to a secondary school in South Lanarkshire.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, a social media account claimed that \u201cexplosives\u201d\u00a0had been planted at Calderglen High School in East Kilbride.<\/p>\n<p>Police carried out searches of the school and deployed sniffer dogs to find any explosive material.<\/p>\n<p>The force confirmed that \u201cnothing of concern\u201d was found.<\/p>\n<p>Officers have charged a male youth in connection with the incident. He will be reported to the relevant authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Inspector Paul Doyle said: \u201cA male youth has been charged in connection with a malicious communication sent to a high school in East Kilbride on the morning of Monday, 7 September, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe will be reported to the relevant authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788997821_825_whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have charged a male youth in connection with alleged bomb threats to a secondary school in South&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-765560","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\/765560","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=765560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}