{"id":312007,"date":"2026-02-26T23:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T23:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/312007\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T23:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T23:01:09","slug":"probe-finds-river-cam-pollution-incident-could-be-from-layby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/312007\/","title":{"rendered":"Probe finds River Cam pollution incident could be from layby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A potential oil spill into a river could have come from a nearby layby, the Environment Agency (EA) has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Anglian Water said on Wednesday it had received reports of a spill at the River Cam in Saffron Walden, Essex.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The EA said it attended a pollution incident on the River Granta, a small tributary of the River Cam, with early indications suggesting &#8220;the source was from the layby next to the watercourse&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c99jgx5xyxko\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC was also told that oil had been seen<\/a> on the River Cam in parts of Cambridgeshire, including Ickleton and Hinxton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A potential oil spill into a river could have come from a nearby layby, the Environment Agency (EA)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[242,85,46,141],"class_list":["post-312007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}