{"id":297274,"date":"2025-07-28T01:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T01:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/297274\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T01:19:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T01:19:12","slug":"headlines-hot-air-balloon-excitement-and-bomb-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/297274\/","title":{"rendered":"Headlines: ‘Hot air balloon excitement’ and ‘bomb scare’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week, police named the 10-year-old boy, external<\/a> who died when a coach carrying Minehead Middle School students crashed on the way back from a zoo trip.<\/p>\n

Ch Supt Mark Edgington, from Avon and Somerset Police, said the force’s thoughts were with Oliver Price’s family at this “unimaginably difficult time”. <\/p>\n

A major incident was declared in Bristol as hundreds of residents were evacuated, external<\/a> from their homes in Ashton Vale. <\/p>\n

A cordon was put in place for several hours while a bomb disposal team examined the area. A man was arrested after reports he was acting suspiciously, but was later released on bail.<\/p>\n

Resident doctors began a five-day strike, external<\/a> on Friday over a pay dispute with the government. Gloucestershire A&E, external<\/a> has made major changes that will last for the duration of the action.<\/p>\n

Excitement is building in Bristol ahead of the International Balloon Fiesta from 8 to 10 August. <\/p>\n

Balloons have been taken to several schools on a “tether roadshow”, external<\/a> and a fleet of balloons rose across the city, external<\/a> in a mass ascent on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this week, police named the 10-year-old boy, external who died when a coach carrying Minehead Middle School…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-297274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114928233451144107","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}