{"id":311467,"date":"2025-12-12T05:40:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T05:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/311467\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T05:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T05:40:11","slug":"dozens-of-sheep-caused-chaos-near-a30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/311467\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of sheep caused chaos near A30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only in Cornwall!<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0_Sheep-in-field-looking-at-camera.jpg\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Generic picture of a sheep in a field(Image: InYourArea)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Up to 30 sheep were on the loose on a Cornwall road near the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cornwalllive.com\/all-about\/a30\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">A30<\/a> this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The farmyard <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cornwalllive.com\/all-about\/animals\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">animals<\/a> were spotted on the old A30 in the Henver Lane area of Zelah, a village not far from <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cornwalllive.com\/all-about\/truro\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Truro<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The loose sheep sparked a police response as officers were called to the scene at 12:30pm (December 11) to try and located the owner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The road was blocked for over thirty minutes before the sheep were removed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cornwalllive.com\/all-about\/devon-and-cornwall-police\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Devon and Cornwall Police<\/a> spokesperson said: &#8220;Police were called at 12.30pm on Thursday 11 December following reports of around 20 to 30 sheep loose on the old A30 in Zelah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;Officers attended and made enquiries to locate the owner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;The road was clear by around 1.05pm.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Only in Cornwall!Generic picture of a sheep in a field(Image: InYourArea) Up to 30 sheep were on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[58587,14689,59,102,123919,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-311467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-a30","tag-devon-and-cornwall-police","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-truro","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311467","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=311467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}