{"id":547478,"date":"2026-04-24T02:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T02:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/547478\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T02:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T02:16:11","slug":"window-cleaner-who-removed-racist-graffiti-from-york-takeaway-thanked-by-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/547478\/","title":{"rendered":"Window cleaner who removed racist graffiti from York takeaway thanked by PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A window cleaner who removed racist graffiti from a Chinese takeaway free of charge has said it was a &#8220;real honour&#8221; to be thanked by the prime minister.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Isaac Davidson was among members of the public and community figures invited to Downing Street, where Sir Keir Starmer hosted a St George&#8217;s Day reception.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The invite was in recognition of Davidson&#8217;s efforts in volunteering to clean the graffiti which had been painted on the outside of Dragon House on Foxwood Lane in York, leaving the owner &#8220;heartbroken&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 31-year-old, from Foxwood, said: &#8220;When the prime minister thanked me, it felt quite overwhelming. I hadn&#8217;t done it for recognition, so to be acknowledged like that was a real honour.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A window cleaner who removed racist graffiti from a Chinese takeaway free of charge has said it was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-547478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547478","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=547478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}