{"id":412336,"date":"2026-02-07T04:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T04:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/412336\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T04:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T04:22:10","slug":"a379-slapton-line-council-sorry-amid-anger-over-storm-hit-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/412336\/","title":{"rendered":"A379 Slapton Line: Council sorry amid anger over storm-hit road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the neighbouring village of Slapton, Peter Osborne, who volunteers in the community shop, said &#8220;very narrow, very windy&#8221; roads now had to be used.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The big lorries that would have normally come along Slapton Line aren&#8217;t unable to do so,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They&#8217;re having to rejig deliveries in smaller trucks and vans &#8211; they&#8217;ll probably have to put their costs up which goes straight off our bottom line.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shirley Sullock, from Slapton, said the closure was affecting children getting to school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The buses aren&#8217;t just meeting up like they should,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The children have been hanging around in places and not getting home on time, so it is a nightmare.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the neighbouring village of Slapton, Peter Osborne, who volunteers in the community shop, said &#8220;very narrow, very&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-412336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412336","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=412336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}