{"id":708704,"date":"2026-07-24T11:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T11:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/708704\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T11:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T11:22:09","slug":"whale-washes-up-on-hemsby-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/708704\/","title":{"rendered":"Whale washes up on Hemsby beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The body of a whale has washed up on the Norfolk coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It has appeared on the beach at Hemsby after several social media posts in recent days reported sightings in the sea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The animal, believed to be a minke whale, is approximately 3.6m (12ft) in length.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Great Yarmouth Borough Council, which manages the beach, has urged people to &#8220;stay clear&#8221; of the animal until it is &#8220;removed safely&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson said: &#8221;The council is aware a dead whale has been washed in on the tide at Hemsby and is now organising for the removal to be completed as soon as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While minke whales are known to be among the smallest, they can grow to about  10m (35ft) and weigh up to about 9,000kg (1,400 stone).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More from Norfolk:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The body of a whale has washed up on the Norfolk coast. It has appeared on the beach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-708704","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\/708704","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=708704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}