{"id":705949,"date":"2026-07-22T21:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T21:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/705949\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T21:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T21:52:12","slug":"lifeboat-and-police-at-scene-of-west-mersea-beach-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/705949\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifeboat and police at scene of West Mersea beach incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People have been asked to stay away from a stretch of beach while the emergency services deal with an &#8220;ongoing incident&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Essex Police said they were called to the seaside town of West Mersea, near Colchester, on Wednesday evening, and have been seen searching the coastline and water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a Facebook post, the force said: &#8220;While we remain on scene, we would ask the public to avoid the Seaview Avenue and beach area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We appreciate that this will cause some local issues, but would ask for your patience and understanding as we may be there for some time yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People have been asked to stay away from a stretch of beach while the emergency services deal with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-705949","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\/705949","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=705949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}