{"id":470513,"date":"2026-05-28T01:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T01:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/470513\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T01:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T01:38:09","slug":"appalling-behaviour-near-swans-in-hampstead-heath-pond-critcized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/470513\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Appalling behaviour&#8217; near swans in Hampstead Heath pond critcized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One eyewitness who saw the crowds on Bank Holiday Monday, when temperatures in London reached 34.8C, told the BBC there were &#8220;massive no swimming signs which were ignored&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Footage posted on social media also showed a dog in the pond. Dogs are banned from the water through a Hampstead Heath by-law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The heath is patrolled by Hampstead Heath Constabulary, which enforces by-laws, the City of London Corporation said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It added that managing the popular open space &#8220;is all about finding a balance between the enjoyment of visitors and the conservation of the heath&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One eyewitness who saw the crowds on Bank Holiday Monday, when temperatures in London reached 34.8C, told the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":["post-470513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470513","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=470513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}