{"id":77210,"date":"2025-08-19T07:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T07:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/77210\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T07:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T07:11:07","slug":"herstomonceux-observatory-future-secured-for-decade-with-new-lease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/77210\/","title":{"rendered":"Herstomonceux Observatory future secured for decade with new lease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The science centre welcomes about 60,000 visitors a year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Matthew Evans, provost of Queen&#8217;s University, said: &#8220;This agreement reflects our joint ambition to preserve and enhance this unique site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The Observatory Science Centre is an important part of the Herstmonceux Castle Estate, and we look forward to working closely with Science Projects to deliver an exceptional experience for visitors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It follows an open letter from campaigners concerned about the observatory&#8217;s future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Members of the Campaign Save Herstmonceux Observatory Science Centre said, while they were pleased with the new lease, it will continue its work, with a view to getting it extended to between 50 and 100 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The science centre welcomes about 60,000 visitors a year. Dr Matthew Evans, provost of Queen&#8217;s University, said: &#8220;This&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-77210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77210","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=77210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}