{"id":496176,"date":"2026-03-26T09:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/496176\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T09:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:52:08","slug":"rescue-effort-for-oil-covered-swans-at-cleethorpes-country-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/496176\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescue effort for oil\u2011covered swans at Cleethorpes Country Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">North East Lincolnshire Council said workers had found a pair of gloves and an empty bottle, which they believe contained oil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The authority has installed absorbent booms in the lake to soak up any remaining oil and said it would work with the Environment Agency to understand the longer-term impact.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Council officials also issued a plea to people to respect the parkland and be respectful of the area&#8217;s wildlife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Commenting on the oil spill, Wolds ward councillor Henry Hudson said: &#8220;This is frankly unacceptable in every sense of the word.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Not only is this disrespecting the beautiful open spaces that our borough offers, but it&#8217;s also putting the animals there in danger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Park users have expressed their anger over the impact it could have on the nesting bird population.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jean Johnson, who regularly visits and feeds the swans, said: &#8220;I think it&#8217;s disgusting, how could anybody do that?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North East Lincolnshire Council said workers had found a pair of gloves and an empty bottle, which they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-496176","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\/496176","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=496176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}