{"id":585213,"date":"2026-05-15T09:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T09:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/585213\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T09:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T09:19:12","slug":"doi-has-change-of-heart-over-seaweed-clearance-in-laxey-harbour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/585213\/","title":{"rendered":"DoI has change of heart over seaweed clearance in Laxey Harbour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Friday, 15 May 2026 06:17\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/300053-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Picture credit: Manx Radio<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            It follows concerns raised by boat owners\n        <\/p>\n<p>A build up of seaweed in Laxey harbour will now be cleared by the Department of Infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The change of heart follows a further inspection of the site by DoI officers after concerns expressed by boat owners.<\/p>\n<p>One of them, David Thornley, told Manx Radio he had an unusable boat in an unusable harbour, because of an accumulation of seaweed and detritus adjacent to the boat slipway.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>The DoI told Manx Radio the decision to carry out the work will be communicated to the harbour user who filed the initial complaint.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, 15 May 2026 06:17 Picture credit: Manx Radio It follows concerns raised by boat owners A build&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[96,758,59,102,755,756,757,128,50,759,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-585213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-entertainment","tag-fun","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-isle-of-man","tag-manx","tag-manx-news","tag-music","tag-news","tag-presenters","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585213","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=585213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}