{"id":400869,"date":"2026-01-31T16:16:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T16:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/400869\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T16:16:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T16:16:21","slug":"ulverston-fly-tipped-waste-likely-dumped-by-wagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/400869\/","title":{"rendered":"Ulverston fly-tipped waste &#8216;likely dumped by wagon&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A &#8220;significant&#8221; amount of fly-tipped waste was likely dumped by a tipper wagon, a council has said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Westmorland and Furness Council officials believe the waste, including plastics items, garden items, aerosols and sideboards, was discarded on Wednesday between 12:00 and 14:00 GMT at Eller Riggs Brow, west of Broughton Beck, Ulverston. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They suspect the rubbish was collected by someone &#8220;offering a professional waste removal service and then illegally dumped&#8221; using a flatbed tipper wagon, leaving behind a threat to wildlife and the environment and a large clean-up bill. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Anyone with information was urged to come forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A &#8220;significant&#8221; amount of fly-tipped waste was likely dumped by a tipper wagon, a council has said. Westmorland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-400869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400869","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=400869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}