{"id":178476,"date":"2025-12-11T05:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T05:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/178476\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T05:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T05:34:07","slug":"flood-warnings-for-shropshire-rivers-following-heavy-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/178476\/","title":{"rendered":"Flood warnings for Shropshire rivers following heavy rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Rising river levels following heavy rain have led to flood warnings and the closure of a car park in Shropshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Shropshire Council said Frankwell car park in Shrewsbury would be shut overnight and confirmed water company Severn Trent was deploying a pump at the Coleham gyratory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The Environment Agency has issued a flood warning for the River Severn at the Showground and The Quarry in Shrewsbury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Flooding is expected overnight from 21:00 GMT, which may affect offices at the showground and on Gravel Hill Lane, the agency&#8217;s warning said. Storm Bram brought wind and rain to many areas of the UK on Tuesday <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c23e7z9dek8o\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">but has since cleared<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A flood warning means flooding is expected, and residents and property owners should take immediate action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The warnings are also in place on the River Vyrnwy at Maesbrook, south of Oswestry and Melverley, near the Welsh border.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">In addition, drain plugs were installed earlier on Wednesday along the Wharfage in Ironbridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rising river levels following heavy rain have led to flood warnings and the closure of a car park&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":{"0":"post-178476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178476","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=178476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}