{"id":288323,"date":"2025-11-28T18:29:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T18:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/288323\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T18:29:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T18:29:19","slug":"water-quality-improves-at-heacham-beach-hit-by-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/288323\/","title":{"rendered":"Water quality improves at Heacham beach hit by pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bathing water quality at a beach affected by pollution has been classed as sufficient, in the latest set of Environment Agency (EA) results.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The water at Heacham, near Hunstanton in Norfolk, has been deemed poor since 2021, but has now improved its rating, although critics have questioned this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wells-next-the-Sea and Caister-on-Sea, also in Norfolk, and Holland-on-Sea and Jaywick in Essex, have now been graded as excellent instead of good, with Hunstanton Main and Old beaches and Manningtree, in Essex, rising from sufficient to good.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This season has brought encouraging news for local bathing water quality,&#8221; said Andrew Raine, EA&#8217;s water manager in East Anglia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bathing water quality at a beach affected by pollution has been classed as sufficient, in the latest set&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-288323","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\/288323","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=288323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}