{"id":596108,"date":"2026-05-21T11:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T11:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/596108\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T11:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T11:59:08","slug":"water-safety-campaigner-cautious-over-pangbourne-meadows-bathing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/596108\/","title":{"rendered":"Water safety campaigner cautious over Pangbourne Meadows bathing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wallace advised swimmers to remain cautious when swimming in Pangbourne Meadow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The River Pang suffers from very high levels of pollution and if there&#8217;s been a discharge (there) in the last few days that might affect people&#8217;s health,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You have to be careful and check there hasn&#8217;t been any sewage discharge on the day or soon before and you should be fine but there will always be a baseline level of pollution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My advice would be to keep your head out of the water and don&#8217;t go in it if you have any open wounds,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wallace advised swimmers to remain cautious when swimming in Pangbourne Meadow. &#8220;The River Pang suffers from very high&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-596108","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\/596108","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=596108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}