{"id":288443,"date":"2025-11-28T19:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T19:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/288443\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T19:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T19:50:07","slug":"weston-super-mare-street-art-graffitied-with-red-crosses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/288443\/","title":{"rendered":"Weston-super-Mare street art graffitied with red crosses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A number of colourful murals on the same street have had red crosses painted over them. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">North Somerset Council said the damage to street art on Old Post Office Lane in Weston-super-Mare had been raised with police so &#8220;appropriate action&#8221; could be taken.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liberal Democrat council leader, Mike Bell, said he was &#8220;fed up&#8221; with &#8220;mindless&#8221; vandalism &#8220;masquerading as patriotism&#8221; in some cases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;These vandals are damaging property, making the town centre look worse and adding to the costs on hard-pressed businesses and councils who must clean it up,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A number of colourful murals on the same street have had red crosses painted over them. North Somerset&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-288443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288443","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=288443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}