{"id":234393,"date":"2025-10-30T17:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/234393\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T17:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:36:08","slug":"yorkshire-wildlife-trust-to-sell-spurn-point-visitor-transporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/234393\/","title":{"rendered":"Yorkshire Wildlife Trust to sell Spurn Point visitor transporter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Jones said the charity bought the vehicle after a tidal surge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-humber-25317870\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">destroyed much of the road<\/a> at Spurn Point in 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We had to think very differently about how we could create access as you could no longer drive all of the way there,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the vehicle, which was used by the Army, had transported &#8220;thousands of people&#8221; across the sandy terrain but the cost of maintenance had &#8220;become too great&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re looking at exploring new and creative ways to transport people down to the point,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Jones described the Unimog as &#8220;a real workhorse&#8221; and added it &#8220;certainly has life still within it&#8221; for a military enthusiast, attraction and other prospective buyers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The thing that really stands out for me is people&#8217;s joy when they see it and they&#8217;re really curious about the vehicle,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The reserve price for the Unimog is \u00a312,000 and the deadline for bids is 12:00 GMT on Friday 14 November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ms Jones said the charity bought the vehicle after a tidal surge destroyed much of the road at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-234393","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\/234393","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=234393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}