{"id":142674,"date":"2025-09-17T05:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T05:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/142674\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T05:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T05:06:11","slug":"first-look-at-the-new-bolt-sculpture-in-omega-in-warrington-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/142674\/","title":{"rendered":"First look at the new Bolt sculpture in Omega in Warrington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Work began on the new iconic structure earlier this year and the Bolt was installed on Saturday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The &#8216;Bolt of Lightning&#8217; landmark has been described as &#8216;highly visible&#8217; from the M62 and is housed on a roundabout at Omega &#8211; close to The Hut Group.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Designed by Peter Naylor and forming part of street art commissioned by Miller Developments Ltd, led by Colin Graham, developers say it will be &#8216;a very significant landmark&#8217;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>(Image: NQ)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It is designed as a permanent memorial to all the men and women, military and civilian, British and American, who served at RAF Burtonwood.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It was fabricated in Hull with parts from Germany and is over 20 metres high and weighs more than 12 tons\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Work started on site on April 14 with an official opening set to take place soon.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>(Image: NQ)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Work began on the new iconic structure earlier this year and the Bolt was installed on Saturday. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138407,"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-142674","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\/142674","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=142674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}