{"id":371193,"date":"2026-01-15T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/371193\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T11:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T11:00:07","slug":"flooding-due-to-burst-pipe-closes-stretch-of-m60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/371193\/","title":{"rendered":"Flooding due to burst pipe closes stretch of M60"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A stretch of the M60 was closed due to flooding, causing rush-hour delays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The anti-clockwise stretch of motorway between junctions 17 and 14 was already shut overnight for roadworks &#8211; but a burst pipe delayed its reopening earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was due to reopen at 05:00 GMT but National Highways said the issue was finally cleared shortly after 09:30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Knock-on delays were also being caused to the M62 westbound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A stretch of the M60 was closed due to flooding, causing rush-hour delays. The anti-clockwise stretch of motorway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-371193","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\/371193","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=371193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}