{"id":196913,"date":"2025-12-17T18:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T18:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/196913\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T18:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T18:01:07","slug":"antony-gormley-backs-out-of-hexham-fire-station-gallery-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/196913\/","title":{"rendered":"Antony Gormley backs out of Hexham fire station gallery plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Council leader Glen Sanderson said it had made &#8220;every effort&#8221; over the last six months to retain the fire station and deliver the depot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;After pausing the process to allow other options to come forward for three months I felt we really had to press on for the sake of our staff and given the timetable for the roll-out of our new recycling service for the county,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sanderson said he had spoken to Sir Antony on two occasions recently, saying they shared the same vision for Hexham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I made it quite clear that we would help to deliver, with him, a culture-rich town and that assurance very much remains,&#8221; he said,<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We look forward especially to working with him on his proposed statue.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Council leader Glen Sanderson said it had made &#8220;every effort&#8221; over the last six months to retain the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-196913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}