{"id":162477,"date":"2025-12-01T09:43:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T09:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/162477\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T09:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T09:43:12","slug":"reindeer-found-after-doing-a-dasher-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/162477\/","title":{"rendered":"Reindeer found after doing a dasher in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police, Royal Marines and the coastguard have helped “save Christmas” after a reindeer escaped a festive event in the United Kingdom, sparking an eight-hour search.<\/p>\n

The reindeer fled on Saturday (local time) from Santa’s Enchanted Forest, a festive event held annually in the seaside town of Formby, north of Liverpool.<\/p>\n

The animal was eventually discovered on a beach, where it was identified with thermal binoculars before being returned to its owners in Wales.<\/p>\n

Southport Offshore Rescue Trust said the Marines, Coastguard, local police and a drone helped to locate the escaped mammal on Formby Beach.<\/p>\n

“Christmas is saved thanks to some great work from multiple agencies.”<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The reindeer fled on Saturday (local time) from Santa’s Enchanted Forest, a festive event held annually in the seaside town of Formby, north of Liverpool. (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n

The trust said it received a call at around 4.45pm, asking for assistance in the search for the reindeer.<\/p>\n

Merseyside Police had been searching for the animal and called the lifeboat team along with Coastguard due to concerns it could end up in a nearby river.<\/p>\n

Quad bikes were used to shepherd the reindeer into some nearby sand dunes where a police drone monitored it.<\/p>\n

A vet travelled from nearly 300km away with sedatives to tranqulise the animal with the hope it could then be transferred to a trailer and back to its stable.<\/p>\n

They were supported by Royal Marines, who were conducting an exercise at a nearby firing range, and sedated the animal at around 1.20am on Sunday (local time).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police, Royal Marines and the coastguard have helped “save Christmas” after a reindeer escaped a festive event in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[50,18399,111,139,69,147,1745,406],"class_list":{"0":"post-162477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-christmas","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-uk-europe","15":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}