{"id":389806,"date":"2026-01-25T14:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T14:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/389806\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T14:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T14:15:08","slug":"weekly-round-up-five-stories-from-the-south-you-may-have-missed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/389806\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly round-up: Five stories from the South you may have missed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A close encounter with a whale in the middle of the Atlantic was captured on video by a team of rowers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It happened as Will Towning from Norwich, Greg and Elliot Collins, from Buckinghamshire, and Chris Betts from Dorset, reached the midway point of their 3,000-mile (4,800km) World&#8217;s Toughest Row adventure. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They were surrounded by about five whales surfacing and diving alongside them, with the footage showing one of the mammals coming close to the side of the boat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The men said they had feared the vessel could be struck, with Elliot Collins calling it &#8220;the most surreal moment&#8221; of his life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A close encounter with a whale in the middle of the Atlantic was captured on video by a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-389806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389806","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=389806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}