{"id":493898,"date":"2026-03-25T05:23:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T05:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/493898\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T05:23:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T05:23:33","slug":"volunteers-clear-chesil-cove-of-fishing-rubbish-after-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/493898\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteers clear Chesil Cove of fishing rubbish after storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Volunteers have spent five days clearing a beach after large amounts of rubbish from fishing vessels were dumped there by a storm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Weymouth and Portland Marine Litter Project appealed for help on Saturday after strong winds and rough seas left Chesil Cove, Dorset, covered in fishing nets, ropes and other marine litter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Organiser Dave Taylor said the operation was &#8220;quite hard&#8221; but he was heartened by the number of people who arrived to help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;There were people off-and-on all weekend and a group of sea swimmers came to help on the last day.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Volunteers have spent five days clearing a beach after large amounts of rubbish from fishing vessels were dumped&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-493898","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\/493898","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=493898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}