{"id":820788,"date":"2026-11-01T14:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T14:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/820788\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T14:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T14:04:09","slug":"peros-bridge-in-bristol-collapses-into-water-after-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/820788\/","title":{"rendered":"Pero&#8217;s Bridge in Bristol collapses into water after damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Andrew Brown, the council&#8217;s chair of the harbour committee, said the the centre span of the bridge &#8220;slipped&#8221; and caused damage to the hydraulic ram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added a small amount of hydraulic oil leaked into the water by the Arnolfini, and workers were currently on site to clear the oil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brown said no one was injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Engineers are also on site assessing the structure and we are reviewing our plans to lift the bridge next week,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;At present there is no confirmed impact to the maintenance and refurbishment programme. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;However, this remains under review pending engineering assessment and approval of the revised plans.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrew Brown, the council&#8217;s chair of the harbour committee, said the the centre span of the bridge &#8220;slipped&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-820788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820788","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=820788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}