{"id":616963,"date":"2026-06-02T12:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T12:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/616963\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T12:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T12:29:08","slug":"northampton-saints-to-create-memorial-wall-for-fans-ashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/616963\/","title":{"rendered":"Northampton Saints to create memorial wall for fans&#8217; ashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A memorial wall to include the ashes of Northampton Saints rugby fans has been given the green light.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Saints Memorial Wall will become part of a wider development to enhance the fan village at the Prem Rugby side&#8217;s Franklin&#8217;s Gardens ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">West Northamptonshire Council approved the plans, which will see the demolition of the Saints Foundation Building, relocation of the groundskeeper&#8217;s compound, a new memorial park, and an outdoor area for food and drink, complete with TV screen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Saints chief executive Julia Chapman said it would enable supporters to have &#8220;a place where their connection with this club can endure&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A memorial wall to include the ashes of Northampton Saints rugby fans has been given the green light.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-616963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616963","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=616963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}