{"id":285902,"date":"2025-11-27T09:46:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T09:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/285902\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T09:46:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T09:46:13","slug":"video-shows-squirrels-living-in-hertfordshire-drain-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/285902\/","title":{"rendered":"Video shows squirrels living in Hertfordshire drain system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A council has released footage showing a family of nesting squirrels sniffing around a roadside drain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hertfordshire County Council said it was one of 11 unusual finds in their roadside drains, which has included a trampoline, pair of trousers and a hand grenade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On 4 November, the local authority started a programme aimed at cleaning at least 520 drains in 80 roads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liberal Democrat councillor Stephen Giles-Medhurst OBE, who is the executive member for highways, commended his staff for working hard to &#8220;keep gullies clear&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Follow Beds, Herts and Bucks news on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/curation\/p0cjf099\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Sounds<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BBCBedsHertsBucks\/\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook, external<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbc3cr\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram, external<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BBC3cr\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow\">X, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A council has released footage showing a family of nesting squirrels sniffing around a roadside drain. Hertfordshire County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-285902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285902","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=285902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}