{"id":446640,"date":"2026-02-26T12:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/446640\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T12:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:30:10","slug":"shrewsbury-volunteers-repaint-graffiti-hit-underpass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/446640\/","title":{"rendered":"Shrewsbury volunteers repaint graffiti-hit underpass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was covered in red daubed crosses and other graffiti,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Edwards said he spent 13 hours making a start on the clean-up, and was joined by a volunteer with a pressure-washing businesses. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We hope to come back on Sunday,&#8221; he said, adding that the plan is to &#8220;completely repaint the place all the way through&#8221; to make it &#8220;look nice and presentable again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The road above, Bage Way, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c4g8e175k5po\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">opened in 1989 by Prince Philip<\/a>, and Edwards is keen to get the underpass closer to how it looked all those years ago. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;It was covered in red daubed crosses and other graffiti,&#8221; he added. Edwards said he spent 13 hours&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446641,"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-446640","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\/446640","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=446640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}