{"id":646105,"date":"2026-06-18T22:11:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T22:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/646105\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T22:11:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T22:11:04","slug":"august-date-for-restoration-of-river-breamish-natural-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/646105\/","title":{"rendered":"August date for restoration of River Breamish natural course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The next phase in a multi-decade scheme to restore a river to a more natural course is to begin in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A stronghold for otters and salmon, the River Breamish, which becomes the River Till at Wooler in Northumberland, is classified as being in an <a href=\"https:\/\/lifewader.co.uk\/water-quality\/river-restoration\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unfavourable condition, external<\/a> due to changes made over centuries to support agriculture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The scheme, led by the charity Tweed Forum, will remove engineering structures which historically straightened the river on a section in the Hedgeley area, north of Rothbury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Senior Project Officer Craig Marshall said: &#8220;We are seeking to allow the river to stretch itself back out across the floodplain as it wants to do, rather than being confined to a single channel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;Before humans came along rivers didn&#8217;t flow in single channels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Its natural path is to flow through several channels across a floodplain.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The next phase in a multi-decade scheme to restore a river to a more natural course is to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-646105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646105","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=646105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}