{"id":784050,"date":"2026-09-27T07:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T07:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/784050\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T07:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T07:42:10","slug":"high-wycombe-church-urged-to-remove-netting-after-bird-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/784050\/","title":{"rendered":"High Wycombe church urged to remove netting after bird death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Calls have been made for protective netting to be removed from a church after a dead pigeon was found hanging from it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All Saints&#8217; Parish Church in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, says the netting protects pedestrians from falling masonry during structural repairs and cannot be removed immediately.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Anna Cooke discovered the pigeon while searching for another bird which two people said had string attached to its feet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She explained: &#8220;I saw this dead bird hanging in this netting, and I was just absolutely horrified. I just wanted it to be urgently fixed because obviously it&#8217;s then a risk to other wildlife.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cooke wants the netting removed or replaced with a more humane alternative.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;Anyone that puts that netting up, it&#8217;s cruel and inhumane in the first place. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As soon as it breaks, it&#8217;s a hazard. It&#8217;s high up and they clearly cannot, in my opinion, maintain it because of the height it&#8217;s at.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Calls have been made for protective netting to be removed from a church after a dead pigeon was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-784050","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\/784050","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=784050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}