{"id":139656,"date":"2025-09-15T20:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/139656\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T20:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:47:08","slug":"amersham-bee-sculptures-stolen-from-jubilee-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/139656\/","title":{"rendered":"Amersham bee sculptures &#8216;stolen&#8217; from jubilee garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The bees were allegedly taken from the Platinum Jubilee pollinator bed, which helped Amersham in Bloom take the 2022 top prize from the Royal Horticultural Society Britain in Bloom competition.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A social media post from the council states: &#8220;We\u2019re sad to share that earlier this week, two of the bees were stolen from the Platinum Jubilee pollinator bed on Sycamore Corner.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;The nature of the theft suggests it may have been planned, as damage was also caused to the posts they were fixed to.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Please keep an eye out.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bucksfreepress.co.uk\/news\/25462487.high-wycombe-judo-paralympian-teaches-older-people-fall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">High Wycombe judo Paralympian teaches older people to fall | Bucks Free Press<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In the comments, there was an outpouring of disappointment from the community.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Cllr Mark Roberts wrote: &#8220;Really sad to hear. I&#8217;ve always been proud of how little vandalism and grafitti there is in Amersham.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I hope this is just an isolated one time incident.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;And maybe someone will think again and return the stolen bees.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The bees were allegedly taken from the Platinum Jubilee pollinator bed, which helped Amersham in Bloom take the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-139656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139656","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=139656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}