{"id":224746,"date":"2025-10-25T13:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T13:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/224746\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T13:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T13:25:07","slug":"burrowing-badgers-leave-road-near-east-halton-at-risk-of-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/224746\/","title":{"rendered":"Burrowing badgers leave road near East Halton at risk of collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Badgers are a protected species, making it illegal to kill or trap them without a licence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council said an &#8220;extensive&#8221; licensing process was required before repair work could begin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A notice on North Lincolnshire Council&#8217;s website said: &#8220;College Road, East Halton has been closed with immediate effect after engineers confirmed it is no longer safe for motorists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Parts of the road have sunk by almost 2cm and continues to move \u2013 with a serious risk of collapse if traffic keeps using it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It adds: &#8220;Specialist surveys have revealed widespread underground damage caused by wildlife activity tunnelling beneath the carriageway. The extent of the voids means the ground beneath the surface can no longer be trusted.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Badgers are a protected species, making it illegal to kill or trap them without a licence. The council&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-224746","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\/224746","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=224746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}