{"id":715432,"date":"2026-07-28T13:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T13:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/715432\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T13:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T13:30:10","slug":"dead-whale-at-hemsby-beach-removed-by-council-using-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/715432\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead whale at Hemsby beach removed by council using trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The giant mammal is understood to have turned up on the sand at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/26296752.hemsby-lifeboat-called-disturbance-norfolk-broads-boat\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hemsby, near Great Yarmouth,<\/a> sometime on the evening of Thursday, July 23.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Dan Goldsmith, of the Marine and Wildlife Rescue, has identified the creature as a minke whale.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\" alt=\"Supplied\"\/>The minke whale washed ashore in Hemsby (Image: Supplied)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The discovery came after several videos of a whale in the sea near the village were posted last week.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Great Yarmouth Borough Council (GYBC) urged villagers to avoid the carcass at the time.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Now the council has confirmed the whale has been removed after being loaded on to a trailer on Monday evening following four days on the sand.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokesman for GYBC said: &#8220;The dead whale which washed up at Hemsby was safely removed from the beach after being carefully loaded on to a trailer on Monday evening.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\" alt=\"Supplied\"\/>The whale was on the beach for four days (Image: Supplied)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;The work was carried out by the council\u2019s company, GYS, working with the Hemsby Lifeboat team.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;The animal will now be transported for disposal.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We\u2019d like to thank the public for keeping their distance while the work was carried out.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The whale is one of several which have washed up around the shores of\u00a0Norfolk over the years.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In June 2023, a minke whale washed up on Old Hunstanton beach and in December 2019,\u00a0a dead 30ft minke whale was found at Heacham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The giant mammal is understood to have turned up on the sand at Hemsby, near Great Yarmouth, sometime&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-715432","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\/715432","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=715432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}