00:00The Passe de Calais prefecture said that a bomb alert was underway at Calais-Freffen Station in northern France in
00:08a post on X at 8.40 a.m. on Thursday.
00:12In a second post less than two hours later, the prefecture said this situation had been resolved.
00:19On the Eurostar website, the company said free trains on Thursday to or from London St Pancras had been delayed
00:27due to a request for police assistance at the station.
00:32These included the 9.01 a.m. from St Pancras to Brussels as well as the 9.10 a.m.
00:39and the 10.10 a.m. from Paris Gardenault to St Pancras.
00:46Passengers at the London station faced long queues with lines of people with their luggage stretching along the building and
00:54snaking round towards the Eurostar departures area.
00:57The disruption comes after a wave of bomb threats and hoaxes have been received across Europe in recent weeks, causing
01:04flight disruption and closing schools.
01:07Hefa and Birmingham airports were among those who received threats that were assessed as not credible last week, as dozens
01:14of flights across the continents were also targeted.
01:18Broadcaster Sky and Ireland's national broadcaster RTE were among a number of media organisations to receive a bomb threat on
01:26Friday.
01:27It is not clear if the incidents are connected.
