{"id":761102,"date":"2026-09-05T19:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T19:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/761102\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T19:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T19:04:13","slug":"hartburn-headteacher-opens-park-after-mnd-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/761102\/","title":{"rendered":"Hartburn headteacher opens park after MND diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A headteacher, whose ankle injury turned out to be motor neurone disease (MND), has fulfilled a dream to open an \u00a389,000 playground at her former school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Claire Park had to retire from Hartburn Primary School in Stockton after being told she has MND, a condition which causes muscle weakness, in January 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her husband Matthew likened the condition to a game of &#8220;whack-a-mole&#8221;, with new health challenges appearing every day, but said the family remained positive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former colleagues, friends and businesses raised more than \u00a3100,000 to grant the former head&#8217;s years-long wish to refurbish the playground, and provide funds for the awareness charity the MND Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A headteacher, whose ankle injury turned out to be motor neurone disease (MND), has fulfilled a dream to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-761102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761102","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=761102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}