{"id":567589,"date":"2026-05-05T15:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/567589\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T15:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:14:14","slug":"rescuers-watching-dolphin-trapped-in-allington-lock-on-river-medway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/567589\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescuers watching dolphin trapped in Allington Lock on River Medway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Experts say they are monitoring a dolphin which has become trapped in a lock on the River Medway in Kent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Volunteers from British Divers Marine Life Rescue said the young common dolphin was in good condition, with no concern for its long-term welfare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is hoped it will be able to swim back out to sea when the gates at Allington Lock are opened at high water later on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is feared trying to reach the dolphin in the water could cause it further distress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Experts say they are monitoring a dolphin which has become trapped in a lock on the River Medway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-567589","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\/567589","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=567589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}