{"id":309615,"date":"2025-12-10T21:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T21:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/309615\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T21:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T21:40:08","slug":"ray-winstone-given-freedom-of-the-city-of-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/309615\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Winstone given Freedom of the City of London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Actor Ray Winstone has said he is &#8220;a very proud Londoner&#8221; after receiving the Freedom of the City of London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 68-year old, who has starred in films including The Departed, Scum and Sexy Beast, was honoured at a ceremony in central London in recognition of his charity work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Born in Hackney and renowned for playing &#8220;hard man&#8221; characters, Winstone has been a long-time supporter of a number of causes including the West Ham United Foundation, the official charity of his beloved West Ham United FC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The actor, known for his distinct East End accent, also supports the ICAP Charity Day, a fundraising event which sees ICAP and City brokers donate 100% of a day&#8217;s revenue to charity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actor Ray Winstone has said he is &#8220;a very proud Londoner&#8221; after receiving the Freedom of the City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-309615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309615","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=309615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}