{"id":405476,"date":"2025-09-07T14:47:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T14:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/405476\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T14:47:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T14:47:17","slug":"emergency-test-alert-sent-to-mobile-phones-across-the-uk-live-updates-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/405476\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency test alert sent to mobile phones across the UK &#8211; live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Keep your cool&#8217; during emergency alert test, government sayspublished at 14:16 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>14:16 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pat McFadden speaking in front of a microphone, wearing a black suit and tie\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ad0a26ec-235e-40de-9b79-dd7a749e1ec1.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"817\" height=\"459\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden is urging people to &#8220;keep their cool&#8221; when the alert system is tested at 15:00 BST.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McFadden, who until Friday&#8217;s government re-shuffle served as a senior Cabinet Office minister, says: &#8220;I know Brits will keep their cool when phones across the UK make a siren-like noise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s important to remember this is only a test, just like the fire drills we all do in our schools and workplaces.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He explains that the government is &#8220;carrying out the test to make sure the system works well when we need it most&#8221; and will work with mobile network operators to &#8220;assess performance&#8221; afterwards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The test takes just 10 seconds, but it helps us keep the country safe 24 hours a day, 365 days a year,&#8221; he adds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Keep your cool&#8217; during emergency alert test, government sayspublished at 14:16 British Summer Time 14:16 BST Image source,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-405476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115163564916793690","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}