{"id":672547,"date":"2026-07-04T00:13:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T00:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/672547\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T00:13:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T00:13:37","slug":"stevenage-stations-cat-nala-to-get-memorial-bronze-statue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/672547\/","title":{"rendered":"Stevenage station&#8217;s cat Nala to get memorial bronze statue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">MP Kevin Bonavia said: &#8220;As people arrive in Stevenage for years to come, Nala will continue to welcome them in her own special way and remind us of the unique community spirit that makes our town such a special place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Planning officer Ailsa Davis said the statue would sit on a pedestal &#8220;designed to resemble a station ticket barrier&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It will be paid for through a crowdfunding campaign and created by artist Ben Twiston-Davies, who has offered his services for free.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nala&#8217;s owner, Natasha Ambler, set up the Facebook page The Adventures of Nala in October 2023, which quickly grew to 25,000 followers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-67407334\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">she released a Christmas single<\/a> with proceeds donated to the RSPCA and homelessness charity Feed Up Warm Up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After Nala&#8217;s death, Ambler said she had &#8220;lost a member of the family&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Do you have a story suggestion for Beds, Herts or Bucks? Contact us below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MP Kevin Bonavia said: &#8220;As people arrive in Stevenage for years to come, Nala will continue to welcome&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-672547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672547","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=672547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}