{"id":130600,"date":"2025-09-11T19:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T19:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/130600\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T19:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T19:28:09","slug":"melrose-golf-course-swings-into-action-to-protect-newts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/130600\/","title":{"rendered":"Melrose golf course swings into action to protect newts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The golf club has been granted just under \u00a310,000 from SBC so it can provide the necessary habitats for the protected species.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The machinery will cost nearly \u00a316,000 &#8211; with the club contributing just under \u00a36,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It means, with the off-season approaching, it can take a different approach to work on the course which should protect the newts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chris believes it also gives them a new and unique selling point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think it puts Melrose Golf Club on the map a little bit, in terms of a uniqueness,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s something we&#8217;d certainly like to promote.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The golf club has been granted just under \u00a310,000 from SBC so it can provide the necessary habitats&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-130600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}