{"id":405594,"date":"2025-09-07T15:53:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T15:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/405594\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T15:53:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T15:53:19","slug":"national-emergency-alert-goes-off-in-british-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/405594\/","title":{"rendered":"National emergency alert goes off in British Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">This is the moment people&#8217;s phones sounded for the national emergency test alert in the British Library. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">At about 15:00 BST on Sunday, mobile phones connected to 4G and 5G networks vibrated and emitted a siren for up to 10 seconds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">It was the second test of the system after the first in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Mobile phone users also received a message making clear it was a drill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The government has used the system to issue real warnings five times, including in January during Storm Eowyn to warn people in Scotland and Northern Ireland about severe weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the moment people&#8217;s phones sounded for the national emergency test alert in the British Library. At&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-405594","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115163824572653029","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405594","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=405594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}