{"id":456966,"date":"2026-03-04T11:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T11:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/456966\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T11:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T11:25:07","slug":"shropshire-patrol-takes-a-load-off-the-toad-crossing-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/456966\/","title":{"rendered":"Shropshire patrol takes a load off the toad crossing road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Among the volunteers to come to their aid was Laura Edwards-White from the Rea Valley Community Wildlife Group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said she saw a message on Facebook advertising the toad patrol and &#8220;just couldn&#8217;t help it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You forget, I think, that when you were a child this is what you did, you picked up toads and you picked up frogs and had a look,&#8221; she explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As an adult, you&#8217;ve forgotten how to do that, so it&#8217;s a real privilege to get up close and personal to them now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kat Edwards-White, the secretary of the group, added: &#8220;It&#8217;s fantastic and you get to pick them up, put them in the bucket, take them to the pond, it&#8217;s a good experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Among the volunteers to come to their aid was Laura Edwards-White from the Rea Valley Community Wildlife Group.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-456966","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\/456966","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=456966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}