{"id":557074,"date":"2026-04-29T14:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T14:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/557074\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T14:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T14:40:12","slug":"major-inquiry-into-sickening-waste-dump-at-caves-inn-pits-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/557074\/","title":{"rendered":"Major inquiry into &#8216;sickening&#8217; waste dump at Cave&#8217;s Inn Pits site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The private land is a former gravel works and protected for the importance of its neutral marsh as well as its scrub, grassland and pool habitats, which support a diverse range of breeding birds, according to government body Natural England. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Air and water quality are now being monitored, the Environment Agency said, and the public are urged to stay away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ian Jones, area director for the West Midlands at the agency, said: &#8220;This is a sickening case of large-scale illegal waste dumping, and\u202fwe share the public&#8217;s disgust.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have launched an investigation with Natural England to find the criminals and ensure they pay the price for their despicable actions.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The private land is a former gravel works and protected for the importance of its neutral marsh as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-557074","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\/557074","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=557074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}