Bomb scare puts capital on full alert; TERROR.SCOTLAND'S main airport ground to a halt yesterday after a bomb scare bomb scare n → amenaza de bomba bomb scare bomb n → alerte f à la bombe bomb scare n → Bombenalarm in the terminal building. Hundreds of travellers were evacuated following the fullscale security alert. Army bomb disposal experts were called in after luggage was left in the toilets at Edinburgh's UK arrivals. Airport bosses expected around 30,000 people to fly yesterday on the first day of the city's school holidays. The airport scare was the second bomb alert in Edinburgh yesterday. Lothian and Borders Police Lothian and Borders Police is the police force for the Scottish council areas of the City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian, Scottish Borders and West Lothian. The force's headquarters are in Fettes Avenue, Edinburgh. HQ at Fettes was evacuated earlier after a suspicious package, which was a hoax Hoax Balloon Hoax, The news story in 1844, reporting the transatlantic crossing of a balloon with eight passengers. [Am. Lit.: The Balloon Hoax in Poe] Piltdown man missing link turned out to be orangutan. [Br. Hist. , was delivered. The police said: "BAA and Lothian and Borders Police are now working to ensure a safe return to normality." |
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