This is rapidly turning into a cluster fuck I suspect they should have just cancelled flights and redirected.
Gatwick Airport: Evacuation of 'large part' of South Terminal following security incident
Submitted 4 weeks ago by Mex@feddit.uk to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9dlvpjdjznt
Rogue@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
Somebody succeeded in taking a 500ml bottle of water through security. So to protect their profits the airport had insisted every go back through security and re-purchase the £4 bottles from the air-side shops.