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Bomb disposal robot deployed to parliament to tackle box of Christmas cards with MP's name on it
A minister has made the Met Police's naughty list after a box of unsent Christmas cards triggered a lockdown around parliament.
Commuters to Westminster arriving for one of their final days of work before Christmas found themselves unable to get across Parliament Square and around the parliamentary estate as police taped it off due to a "suspicious package". Officers swung into action, closing down Parliament Square and Millbank before 7.30am, and the bomb squad was deployed to investigate.
A short while later, spotted heading into the breach to investigate this package, was a bomb disposal robot. Using the robot, the item was carefully inspected by specialist officers monitoring the feed - and it turned out to be a box of unsent Christmas cards.
Careful inspection by an intrepid Sky News journalist found that the cards were in a box bearing the name of none other than communities minister Miatta Fahnbulleh MP. Many of the cards were in a box marked "most urgent" - which makes sense, as parliament rises for recess at the end of the day.
We reckon that parliamentary security and the Met Police will be shooting to the top of her Christmas card list. Sky News understands that Ms Fahnbulleh was expecting a delivery of cards, but they never arrived..
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