{"id":426839,"date":"2026-02-15T10:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T10:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/426839\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T10:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T10:08:07","slug":"west-of-england-in-pictures-cold-water-dip-and-beavers-unleashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/426839\/","title":{"rendered":"West of England in pictures: Cold water dip and beavers unleashed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thrill-seeking swimmers enjoyed a cold dip this week at Bristol&#8217;s The Wave as part of a fundraising event for hospice care. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Somerset, six beavers were released into the wild at an estate as part of efforts to restore nature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elsewhere in the West of England, flooding dominated the landscape after relentless rain, but fortunately there was still plenty to smile about. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Here&#8217;s a selection of the best photos from across the West.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thrill-seeking swimmers enjoyed a cold dip this week at Bristol&#8217;s The Wave as part of a fundraising event&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-426839","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\/426839","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=426839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}