{"id":450188,"date":"2026-02-28T11:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T11:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/450188\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T11:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T11:34:07","slug":"northumberland-coast-gets-227k-funding-to-battle-light-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/450188\/","title":{"rendered":"Northumberland Coast gets \u00a3227k funding to battle light pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A \u00a3227,000 grant will &#8220;ensure that we don&#8217;t lose our stars to light pollution&#8221;, an organisation has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Northumberland Coast National Landscape (NCNL) said it would use National Lottery Heritage funding to protect dark skies on its coastline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some of the money will be used to create accessible Dark Sky Discovery sites on the coast at Warkworth, Alnmouth, Bamburgh, Cocklawburn and near Dunstanburgh Castle, with tilted benches for a better view of the night sky.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It will also fund education outreach, pollution monitoring and the retrofitting of motion-sensor &#8220;dark sky friendly\u202flighting&#8221; on farms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A \u00a3227,000 grant will &#8220;ensure that we don&#8217;t lose our stars to light pollution&#8221;, an organisation has said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-450188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450188","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=450188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}