British trade union conference evacuated over bomb threat

A hotel and nearby conference centre on the south coast of England where Britain's Trades Union Congress (TUC) is holding its annual conference were evacuated on Sunday due to a bomb threat, police said.Police said the Grand Hotel in Brighton, where five people were killed by an Irish Republican Army bombing during the Conservative Party conference in 1984, received an anonymous phone call at 1530 GMT on Sunday saying there was an explosive device in the building.The nearby Brighton Centre, wher