{"id":501452,"date":"2026-03-29T08:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T08:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/501452\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T08:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T08:11:11","slug":"main-road-could-be-shut-for-days-after-huge-mill-fire-in-leek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/501452\/","title":{"rendered":"Main road could be shut for days after huge mill fire in Leek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">David Payne, co-owner of the nearby Mill Street Kitchen told BBC Radio Stoke he had kept his cafe open over the weekend to help &#8220;give back&#8221; to the emergency service workers helping keep the area safe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also runs a delivery service, and said the closure of one of the town&#8217;s main routes had caused significant difficulties for his business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite this, there was &#8220;such a strong community&#8221; in Leek, he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve had people purposely come out of their way to try and support us &#8211; even if they&#8217;ve had to come on foot,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Payne, co-owner of the nearby Mill Street Kitchen told BBC Radio Stoke he had kept his cafe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-501452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501452","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=501452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}