{"id":220156,"date":"2025-10-23T11:31:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T11:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/220156\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T11:31:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T11:31:19","slug":"thetford-river-group-calls-for-legal-action-over-foam-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/220156\/","title":{"rendered":"Thetford river group calls for legal action over foam pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A river preservation group is calling for legal action against those responsible for thick white foam pollution for the second time in a year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The substance filled a stretch of the River Thet in Thetford, Norfolk, on Saturday &#8211; and dead fish could be seen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Roseanne Gough of the Thetford River Group &#8211; which carries out monitoring of the waterway, including litter trawls and water quality testing &#8211; said the latest incident was &#8220;devastating for the community and the wildlife as well&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The river is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/articles\/c800wy40rn3o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">chalk stream<\/a>, and such waterways are globally rare, with almost a third of the world&#8217;s chalk streams found in the East of England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A river preservation group is calling for legal action against those responsible for thick white foam pollution for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-220156","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\/220156","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=220156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}