{"id":828669,"date":"2026-11-09T02:50:30","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T02:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/828669\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T02:50:30","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T02:50:30","slug":"hunt-on-for-exceptional-new-manager-of-cornwalls-looe-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/828669\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunt on for ‘exceptional’ new manager of Cornwall’s Looe Island"},"content":{"rendered":"

Accommodation was provided for the manager and the role included caring for wildlife, leading a team of volunteers and welcoming visitors, the trust added.<\/p>\n

Looe Island was given to the wildlife trust in 2004 by sisters Babs and Evelyn Atkins, who lived there and wrote two books about island life.<\/p>\n

It was also known as St George’s Island during World War Two.<\/p>\n

It sits one mile (1.6km) off Looe<\/a> and covers just over 22 acres (8.9 hectares) , including woodland, grassland, shingle and a rocky reef teaming with wildlife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Accommodation was provided for the manager and the role included caring for wildlife, leading a team of volunteers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":828670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-828669","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\/828669","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=828669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}