{"id":141456,"date":"2025-09-16T16:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T16:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/141456\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T16:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T16:01:07","slug":"headlines-a-saved-swan-and-welcome-messages-replace-flags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/141456\/","title":{"rendered":"Headlines: A saved swan and welcome messages replace flags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A new drone manufacturer has opened a factory in Swindon, in a positive financial move for the area, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/100064721951338\/posts\/1259059489594771\/\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Swindon Council, external<\/a> says. Tekever will be taking over the Sir Norman Foster-designed Grade II-listed Spectrum building in West Swindon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A swan was treated at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/100069806141666\/posts\/1095572076112987\/\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vale Wildlife Hospital, external<\/a>, near Tewkesbury, after it was brought in coated in pollution, unable to fly or feed itself. But staff at the animal centre used special detergents and a lot of patience &#8211; scrubbing each feather individually &#8211; to clean the swan, rehabilitate it and release it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/100064519131059\/posts\/1189544869872806\/\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Salisbury Cathedral&#8217;s, external<\/a> annual pet service was a &#8220;triumph&#8221; with animals including dogs, guinea pigs and tortoises in a religious ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new drone manufacturer has opened a factory in Swindon, in a positive financial move for the area,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-141456","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\/141456","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=141456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}