{"id":793674,"date":"2026-10-06T11:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T11:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/793674\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T11:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T11:46:09","slug":"water-leak-continues-on-road-in-bedford-during-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/793674\/","title":{"rendered":"Water leak continues on road in Bedford during drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Joan Lightning, 63, said it was &#8220;ridiculous&#8221; and the water had been &#8220;streaming down there for so long it has algae in it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There have been leaks on and off for years on Manton Lane,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jones said people were &#8220;resigned&#8221; to the long-running problem and &#8220;attempts have been made to solve it, but they have clearly failed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Smith said: &#8220;It seems pointless to keep repairing it when it just fails somewhere else.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He wants Anglian Water to &#8220;not lecture us about saving water when they are pouring it down the drain&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They are charging a lot of money for services, and our bills are going up &#8211; is this what we are paying for?&#8221; he asked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joan Lightning, 63, said it was &#8220;ridiculous&#8221; and the water had been &#8220;streaming down there for so long&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-793674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793674","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=793674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}