{"id":164838,"date":"2025-09-27T23:56:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T23:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/164838\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T23:56:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T23:56:12","slug":"farm-suspected-of-river-weaver-pollution-that-killed-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/164838\/","title":{"rendered":"Farm suspected of River Weaver pollution that killed fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A farm is suspected as being the main source of pollution, thought to be slurry, in a river where a number of fish died this summer, bosses at the Environment Agency (EA) say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Environment minister Emma Hardy wrote to Crewe and Nantwich MP Connor Naismith following the incident on the River Weaver in the Nantwich area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At about 13:30 BST on 21 August, a member of the public alerted the agency to fish in distress, she said in the letter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The minister added the EA &#8220;is confident that it has identified the principal source of the pollution of the most recent fish death, and a full investigation is under way&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A farm is suspected as being the main source of pollution, thought to be slurry, in a river&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-164838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164838","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=164838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}