{"id":783380,"date":"2026-09-26T15:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T15:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/783380\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T15:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T15:56:09","slug":"deer-dies-after-impaling-itself-on-walshaw-railings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/783380\/","title":{"rendered":"Deer dies after impaling itself on Walshaw railings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Reports that the High Street in Walshaw had been closed by police after the deer injured itself began circulating on social media earlier this morning.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It is understood the deer impaled itself on the fence surrounding Christ Church Walshaw, though this has not been confirmed by emergency services.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokesperson for Greater Manchester Police said: &#8220;We were called to reports that a deer had impaled itself and it was badly injured.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;The deer has been removed, and the officers arranged for street cleansing to take place, which has now been completed.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The force has said the deer died, though did not confirm witness reports that it was euthanised by armed police officers.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Several people said the incident was &#8216;so sad&#8217; and &#8216;very upsetting&#8217;, while many said euthanasia was &#8216;the right thing to do&#8217; for the &#8216;poor&#8217; animal to &#8216;put it out of its misery&#8217;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Images from the scene showed several marked and unmarked police vehicles blocking the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reports that the High Street in Walshaw had been closed by police after the deer injured itself began&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-783380","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\/783380","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=783380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}