{"id":359370,"date":"2026-01-08T18:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T18:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/359370\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T18:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T18:01:08","slug":"tree-felling-begins-ahead-of-kidlington-waste-mountain-clearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/359370\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree felling begins ahead of Kidlington waste mountain clearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On 11 December, the Environment Agency (EA) said preparatory work to remove the tip would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/czj0prvlp30o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">begin &#8220;imminently&#8221;<\/a>, but Miller told MPs nothing appeared to have been done.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Responding to Miller in Tuesday&#8217;s adjournment debate, Creagh said: &#8220;The Environment Agency will continue to closely monitor the site whilst preparatory work takes place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is an absolute top priority for this government, my message to the waste criminals is: &#8216;We are coming for you and we are going to shut you down&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Miller said protecting the people removing the waste and protecting the environment &#8220;just takes that bit longer&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But I will continue to put pressure on the government and the Environment Agency to get it done as quickly as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An EA spokesman said the criminal investigation &#8220;continues at speed&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On 11 December, the Environment Agency (EA) said preparatory work to remove the tip would begin &#8220;imminently&#8221;, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-359370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359370","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=359370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}