{"id":409763,"date":"2026-02-05T18:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/409763\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T18:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:50:07","slug":"worcester-city-council-investigating-unauthorised-fizzers-mural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/409763\/","title":{"rendered":"Worcester City Council investigating unauthorised Fizzers mural"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The inspiration behind his design, he said, was his girlfriend&#8217;s tea towel, which features an array of retro sweets. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sce said the final design was a coin toss between the Fizzers and a Curly Wurly, with the classic fizzy sweets winning out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Maybe the kids don&#8217;t know much about Fizzers, but their parents certainly will,&#8221; he said, after completing the work. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s just something to spark the memory and bring some happiness.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;Any sort of space that looks dilapidated and takes a little bit of joy from our peripheral, I&#8217;m drawn to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m always looking to add to a place rather than detract from a place.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The inspiration behind his design, he said, was his girlfriend&#8217;s tea towel, which features an array of retro&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-409763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409763","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=409763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}