{"id":328522,"date":"2025-12-21T18:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T18:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/328522\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T18:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T18:09:08","slug":"ea-investigates-after-foam-reported-on-birmingham-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/328522\/","title":{"rendered":"EA investigates after &#8216;foam&#8217; reported on Birmingham river"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Environment Agency has said it is investigating after concerns were raised about possible pollution in a river in Birmingham. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Residents in the Selly Park and Stirchley areas shared concerns and photos on social media about &#8220;foam&#8221; seen travelling along the River Rea. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pictures were taken in various locations, including alongside Cannon Hill Park, near the Rea Valley Cycle Path and near the city&#8217;s Third Avenue. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are aware of this incident and our officers are investigating,&#8221; said an agency spokesperson. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Environment Agency has said it is investigating after concerns were raised about possible pollution in a river&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-328522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328522","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=328522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}