{"id":280086,"date":"2025-11-24T05:34:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T05:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/280086\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T05:34:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T05:34:25","slug":"malmesbury-bowl-club-devastated-by-storm-claudia-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/280086\/","title":{"rendered":"Malmesbury Bowl Club devastated by Storm Claudia flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A skittles match had been under way on Friday evening when Storm Claudia hit. Witnesses said that by 22:00 GMT, the area around the club was 15cm (6in) under water with people forced to wade to their cars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The club was then forced to cancel its annual awards night on Saturday evening, as the flooding worsened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Rice-Smith added: &#8220;We are lucky this year that, so far, while the water did decimate our green, it didn&#8217;t reach our clubhouse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If it had got into the building, it would have probably finished the club off and that would have a knock-on effect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Weddings and wakes are held at the club house and various community groups, such as the Women&#8217;s Institute, also use the space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A skittles match had been under way on Friday evening when Storm Claudia hit. Witnesses said that by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-280086","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\/280086","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=280086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}