\n The packages were discovered in separate locations yesterday evening, July 25, prompting major police activity and road closures.\n<\/p>\n
\n Police were made aware of the first package, which\u00a0 was found outside The Botanist on King Street, at around 6pm.\n<\/p>\n
\n At around 9pm, police were made aware of second suspicious package located outside McDonald’s on Friar Street.\n<\/p>\n
\n The force then became aware of a third package, located outside\u00a0The Hope Tap Wetherspoons, Friar Street, at around 10.30pm.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n Officers attended all three scenes, and were initially supported by the Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit as a ‘precaution’.\n<\/p>\n
\n Cordons were established, and the objects were removed.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n A spokesman for Thames Valley Police said: “While an arrest has been made, we are actively investigating the incidents and officers are following several lines of inquiry.\n<\/p>\n
\n “At this moment in time, we believe that all three incidents may be linked.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Cordons have now been lifted but police expect\u00a0some further disruption to traffic following road closures.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n Superintendent Rachel Sykes said: “Additional patrols will be taking place in the area today to provide reassurance.\n<\/p>\n
\n “The area is safe, but if you have any concerns, please speak to one of our officers while they are out on patrol.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Thank you to those members of the public who contacted us and for the patience of those who were diverted from the area whilst our officers investigated these incidents.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The packages were discovered in separate locations yesterday evening, July 25, prompting major police activity and road closures.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-253388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}