{"id":792032,"date":"2026-10-04T21:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T21:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/792032\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T21:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T21:18:15","slug":"wightlink-car-ferry-disruption-after-fleas-found-on-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/792032\/","title":{"rendered":"Wightlink car ferry disruption after &#8216;fleas&#8217; found on board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ferry passengers were facing disruption on Sunday after a car ferry was taken out of service for fumigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wightlink said &#8220;insects, possibly fleas&#8221;, were identified in an area of the passenger lounge on board its St Clare ferry, requiring &#8220;specialist fumigation and enhanced cleaning&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than 10 sailings on the Portsmouth-Fishbourne route have been cancelled as a result.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ferry operator apologised for the disruption and said the vessel would return to service once the treatment programme was completed and required checks had been carried out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Additional operational measures were being implemented to minimise the impact on customer journeys, it added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Wightlink spokesperson said the fleas likely emanated from a pet travelling on the ferry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ferry passengers were facing disruption on Sunday after a car ferry was taken out of service for fumigation.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-792032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792032","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=792032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}