{"id":658606,"date":"2026-06-26T02:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T02:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/658606\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T02:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T02:57:10","slug":"west-coast-today-news-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/658606\/","title":{"rendered":"West Coast Today &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/MS_OT_Benderloch_flags_2_June_2026web_Main.jpg\" alt=\"Flags flying in Benderloch. Photograph: Martin Stewart\" title=\"Flags flying in Benderloch. Photograph: Martin Stewart\" class=\"aos-Image aos-W100\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Flags flying in Benderloch. Photograph: Martin Stewart<\/p>\n<p>Road maintenance agency BEAR Scotland tells village to take down its World Cup flags because they are \u2019a distraction\u2019<\/p>\n<p>To continue reading this article you will need to ..<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westcoasttoday.co.uk\/subscribe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a> for full access to West Coast Today or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westcoasttoday.co.uk\/registration\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Register<\/a> for 1 free article per week<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Subscribing gives you access all areas of the website, unlimited articles and access to the digital editions of The Oban Times, Arran Banner, Campbeltown Courier, Argyllshire Advertiser and Lochaber Times including 18 years of archive editions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You will also be helping to support local independent journalism and local jobs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"aos-WYSEdit-button aos-WYSEdit-linktrack\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westcoasttoday.co.uk\/subscribe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a> <a class=\"aos-WYSEdit-button aos-WYSEdit-linktrack\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westcoasttoday.co.uk\/registration\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Register<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Already a subscriber or registered user?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a class=\"aos-WYSEdit-button aos-WYSEdit-linktrack\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westcoasttoday.co.uk\/login\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Login<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flags flying in Benderloch. Photograph: Martin Stewart Road maintenance agency BEAR Scotland tells village to take down its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-658606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658606","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=658606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}