{"id":525898,"date":"2026-04-11T22:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T22:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/525898\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T22:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T22:31:11","slug":"monkey-found-in-boot-of-car-on-m6-to-be-taken-to-monkey-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/525898\/","title":{"rendered":"Monkey &#8216;found in boot of car&#8217; on M6 to be taken to Monkey World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The Marmoset monkey will be taken to Monkey World rescue centre in Dorset some time next week, according to reports by the BBC.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  According to the BBC, police officers stopped the vehicle that was travelling on the M6 at around 6.30pm on April 8.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Two people have been arrested.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In a statement Cumbria Police told the BBC: &#8220;The driver, a man, was arrested on suspicion of driving a vehicle in a dangerous condition and drug driving.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;The passenger was arrested on suspicion of illegal possession of a primate after the discovery of a Marmoset monkey in the vehicle&#8217;s boot.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  During an interview with the BBC, Monkey World director Alison Cronin got a phone call about the rescue.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We are going to make it a priority to give it a pair of parents to look after it for the rest of its life&#8221; she said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I don&#8217;t even know what to say. It&#8217;s still happening today. The laws have now changed. People have to be licensed properly.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Marmoset monkey will be taken to Monkey World rescue centre in Dorset some time next week, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-525898","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\/525898","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=525898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}