{"id":575071,"date":"2026-07-30T07:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T07:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/575071\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T07:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T07:16:09","slug":"pictures-show-scale-of-drought-across-england-as-rivers-dry-up-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/575071\/","title":{"rendered":"Pictures show scale of drought across England as rivers dry up &#8211; BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiWkFVX3lxTFBuLXBZMUtqemVrQi1QV1RwYjZmekg5TXgzUTZfX3JBSXdZelR5RXZrN0wwWTFIcEJTaGJuMTBwYWxGOE1kWkFrNm9QZEYwYlExNERmTDJiZFNaZw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pictures show scale of drought across England as rivers dry up<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMipAFBVV95cUxPMU9FWEdKeUFMcHFoMnh2T0xUWUdPRjZIRDduTF9hSTIyb0p1Mmt5ZzRhS0hKZDlCcnpLT1h0SVVKekh6UWtiYnJZb2pnNE9IT3R2c0FJdFh0eFNtaXQwZVViYnhjMnZPZFF6eHBpR0xlMm1VclJyQkJMTXFpaWRRWnZIb0ZBSzZSNFRfSVlzWW1GTGtEdmxaaWo3ZjNvbjJYbVZJTA?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Half of England officially in \u2018exceptionally serious\u2019 drought<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Guardian<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiowFBVV95cUxNMzhES0xTYmg4eDlFRW1LUlE0YmhfS2M4UjFyaGFRYjkxbHE2N3R2RklaSlU3UkJDdUV4eHFRUkxWcW1Jdnd6ellsV3ZCT2VGVVBJOXlMWUVTemp1UmlQTWVPbExLT2tXaGtUVFBNVlZJQ0I0bTBoU2N1Nzl2aktleVNTaElYNm1reWpiRy1ubkpyX3Y1aTYtcG5haXM4T2RpTlU0?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;Meaningful rainfall&#8217; needed to get main crop potatoes back on track<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Agriland<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMijAFBVV95cUxOS2VLVjdJNktvQjNPek1XU0VrNXo0UnJOdjFMQ0FXN3hUVkV6MUotbVZyVnExRmJ1THNNVE81eUhMTlRLcFVVV0pJQ2RHeTBuSDQ4dWxyUnpjeXZ2c0oyMnVNMENMUlBxaTQxREVGbmowa0JjLTh5dFU5TEgzV013ZzBNSTdCek42Q1JnMA?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wildfire alert as UK on brink of breaking 50-year drought record<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Times<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMipwFBVV95cUxQeU5PNjF3b2hpVkdQdkFZR1FySHBHX1V0OXZwaldoX0h4T2huTXhyWWp5dEpWTjRfLU5BejJDWnlIRkhBM0tHbUZ5VUJJc01ZeGNmQndZTnVjTENVeTFyVzBoQnFYT0dRdE1yTUdDRU9kRTZWV0xNRzJqbExFeEhyUHhKYkdvVmQtbVRaUlJaZ0RyZFBSdUZoQ1NUOE94R2pYX3oxZWxocw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Half of England in drought, says Environment Agency<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Telegraph<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pictures show scale of drought across England as rivers dry up&nbsp;&nbsp;BBCHalf of England officially in \u2018exceptionally serious\u2019 drought&nbsp;&nbsp;The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-575071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575071","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=575071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}