The airport says "some passengers were evacuated and we had to suspend departing flights for a couple of hours" after reports of a suspicious vehicle.

Birmingham Airport has been evacuated following a report of a suspicious vehicle on Wednesday afternoon.Hundreds of people have been asked to leave the airport, which is the seventh largest in the UK,

Operations at Birmingham Airport in central England will be returning to normal after reports of a suspicious vehicle on Wednesday had earlier led to cancelled flights. "Following a police investigation,