{"id":655590,"date":"2025-12-26T09:15:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T09:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/655590\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T09:15:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T09:15:19","slug":"year-in-review-2025-devon-and-cornwall-stories-to-make-you-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/655590\/","title":{"rendered":"Year in review 2025: Devon and Cornwall stories to make you smile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Actor James Norton <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cqx98eddj82o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said he &#8220;didn&#8217;t want to leave&#8221; Cornwall<\/a> after the filming of TV drama Playing Nice ended.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He credited the community around Newquay for not only welcoming the crew so warmly but for helping him learn a Cornish accent for the drama&#8217;s lead character.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cornish filming locations for the series included Watergate Bay, Mevagissey, the Jubilee Pool in Penzance, Minions, Newlyn East and stretches of the north Cornwall coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Norton, a Yorkshireman, said he had found the county to be &#8220;a jewel, it&#8217;s the most beautiful part of the whole country&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actor James Norton said he &#8220;didn&#8217;t want to leave&#8221; Cornwall after the filming of TV drama Playing Nice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-655590","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115785113485760044","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655590","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=655590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}