{"id":448827,"date":"2026-02-27T17:16:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T17:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/448827\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T17:16:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T17:16:24","slug":"fly-tipping-spotted-in-thorney-river-raises-hackles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/448827\/","title":{"rendered":"Fly-tipping spotted in Thorney river &#8216;raises hackles&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Volunteers fear they will left to clear fly-tipping from a Cambridgeshire watercourse. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Black bin bags of rubbish has been dumped in waterways between Thorney and Whittlesey, near Peterborough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Litter picker Matthew Marraner, who lives in Eye, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s a big problem and it&#8217;s very difficult to clean because the council determines it&#8217;s not their responsibility, so it comes downs to volunteers to take the rubbish out and put it somewhere where it can be collected.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Peterborough city councillor for Eye, Thorney and Newborough, Steve Allen, said: &#8220;The dumping of debris in the Thorney River has in the past been mercifully pretty limited, but the latest tipping really raised hackles.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Volunteers fear they will left to clear fly-tipping from a Cambridgeshire watercourse. Black bin bags of rubbish has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-448827","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\/448827","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=448827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}