{"id":423641,"date":"2026-04-29T16:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/423641\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T16:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:02:08","slug":"delight-as-hornseas-starfish-galaxy-trail-starts-to-take-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/423641\/","title":{"rendered":"Delight as Hornsea&#8217;s Starfish Galaxy trail starts to take shape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The installations <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cp384l2e0qzo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">were initially delayed<\/a> after the group was told each piece required its own planning approval.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The first sculpture to go up, called Lake-Land By The Sea, was designed by Katy Cobb, who was inspired by an old railway poster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;This is amazing, it goes from having the starfish at home where I&#8217;m painting it and all of a sudden it&#8217;s a real-life thing that&#8217;s happening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I kept coming back to the old, early 20th-Century posters for Hornsea. It was just perfect to do something like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">King said the trail was a community-funded project, which received a range of donations including \u00a35 in pocket money up to business donations of \u00a32,500 for a starfish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;To see the amount of people who have come to support the event has made it so special,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The installations were initially delayed after the group was told each piece required its own planning approval. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-423641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423641","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=423641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}