21.   Meanwhile, police responded to more bomb alerts, conducted thousands more identity checks and studied evidence from the site of the blast.

22.   On Wednesday, a bomb alert shut down an east-west RER line in Paris.

23.   On Wednesday, a bomb alert shut down the east-west line serving the Paris region.

24.   Police also dealing with another bomb alert at the Stormont Hotel on the edge of east Belfast.

25.   Tension has risen in Brussels in recent days with four bomb alerts since the weekend in rail and subway stations around the capital.

26.   The bomb alert and evacuation, so pedestrian a feature of life to Northern Ireland locals, proved a fatal attraction for the tourists.

27.   The latest incident follows three other false bomb alerts reported earlier this week in the port city of Rotterdam.

28.   Three other bomb alerts in Belfast prompted the evacuation of two leading hotels and a city center nightclub.

29.   Friday, a wave of IRA coded bomb alerts and two small explosions wreaked havoc in northern England, snarling traffic and forcing evacuations.

30.   Guidelines have also been issued by the Home Office on what procedure polling officials should follow in the event of a bomb alert.