{"id":421525,"date":"2026-02-12T09:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T09:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/421525\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T09:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T09:33:07","slug":"anger-over-repeated-flooding-of-walsall-cemetery-graves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/421525\/","title":{"rendered":"Anger over repeated flooding of Walsall cemetery graves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wilson added: &#8220;The one in front of my mum&#8217;s was like a river. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I usually go up and sit there and have a flask of tea but I couldn&#8217;t even put flowers there. It was awful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Before she passed, she always, always said &#8216;make sure there&#8217;s always fresh flowers and it&#8217;s always clean&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She would not want to go anywhere like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Angela Meeson, also 50, said: &#8220;&#8221;It&#8217;s always been a bit muddy by my mum but it&#8217;s gotten worse. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There&#8217;s graves that are underwater.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I go up every week and I used to sit down for half an hour chatting to mum but I can&#8217;t do that now. If I bring a foldable chair or plastic bag to sit on, you just sink in.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wilson added: &#8220;The one in front of my mum&#8217;s was like a river. &#8220;I usually go up and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421526,"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-421525","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\/421525","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=421525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}