{"id":752777,"date":"2026-08-28T18:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T18:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/752777\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T18:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T18:58:10","slug":"six-people-injured-after-sign-falls-at-christian-festival-near-steyning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/752777\/","title":{"rendered":"Six people injured after sign falls at Christian festival near Steyning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Andrew Griffith, MP for Arundel and South Downs, said: &#8220;Concerned to hear reports of casualties at the Big Church festival at Wiston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There have certainly been strong gusts of wind during the course of this afternoon locally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My thoughts are with all of those impacted at this time and those responding to the incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The festival said that it was working closely with emergency services and the authorities, with further announcements to be made as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are grateful for the understanding, patience, and prayers of our community at this time,&#8221; it added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Organisers earlier wrote on social media that &#8220;all day visitors must leave the site now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If you are camping with us, please return to your campsite and await further updates,&#8221; they added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Campers were also able to leave the site if they wished to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrew Griffith, MP for Arundel and South Downs, said: &#8220;Concerned to hear reports of casualties at the Big&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-752777","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\/752777","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=752777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}