{"id":447197,"date":"2026-02-26T19:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/447197\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T19:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:25:07","slug":"probe-finds-river-cam-pollution-incident-could-be-from-layby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/447197\/","title":{"rendered":"Probe finds River Cam pollution incident could be from layby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A potential oil spill into a river could have come from a nearby layby, the Environment Agency (EA) has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Anglian Water said on Wednesday it had received reports of a spill at the River Cam in Saffron Walden, Essex.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The EA said it attended a pollution incident on the River Granta, a small tributary of the River Cam, with early indications suggesting &#8220;the source was from the layby next to the watercourse&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c99jgx5xyxko\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC was also told that oil had been seen<\/a> on the River Cam in parts of Cambridgeshire, including Ickleton and Hinxton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A potential oil spill into a river could have come from a nearby layby, the Environment Agency (EA)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-447197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447197","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=447197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}