False alarm sees shoppers evacuated at Portsmouth's Cascades centre
A FALSE alarm led to some shoppers being evacuated from a shopping centre on Mother's Day
The alarm sounded in Primark, in Cascades Shopping Centre, in Commercial Road, Portsmouth shortly before 2pm this afternoon.
Centre manager Rhoda Joseph said that staff acted quickly to ascertain that the alarm was false, however some shops had already begun evacuation procedures and had put their shutters down by the time the incident was given the all-clear at 2.01pm.