{"id":586472,"date":"2026-05-16T01:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T01:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/586472\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T01:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T01:16:13","slug":"shoes-found-in-search-for-missing-14-year-old-near-barnstaple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/586472\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoes found in search for missing 14-year-old near Barnstaple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police said his family was aware of the development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Insp Andy Wills said: &#8220;We are asking the public to help us with this by avoiding the search area. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In particular, any activity on the water could significantly disrupt the search operation and put you and members of the emergency services at risk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;We would also like to remind members of the public that drone flights are prohibited in the area while searches are ongoing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;All of the search activity is being directed by accredited police search advisers, who are defining search areas in consultation with colleagues including HM Coastguard. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The public should expect to see focussed search activity around the River Taw,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police said his family was aware of the development. Insp Andy Wills said: &#8220;We are asking the public&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-586472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586472","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=586472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}