{"id":984457,"date":"2026-05-25T20:06:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T20:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/984457\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T20:06:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T20:06:32","slug":"major-ongoing-police-incident-at-barry-island-as-air-ambulance-called-to-scene-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/984457\/","title":{"rendered":"Major ongoing police incident at Barry Island as Air Ambulance called to scene &#8211; live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Thousands of people have been pictured at Barry Island on Monday as Wales enjoyed another day of blazing sunshine to cap off bank holiday weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The popular seaside destination was packed with families, tourists and day-trippers making the most of the exceptionally warm weather, with beaches crowded from early on Monday morning and queues forming for ice cream stalls, cafes and fairground rides.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Hundreds of people were stuck in traffic entering Barry &#8211; some claiming it was the worst traffic they have ever seen in the seaside town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Pictures from the island showed sunseekers covering the sandy beach with deckchairs, towels and windbreakers while children played in the sea under clear blue skies.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"By midday it was hard to find any free space on the sand\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779739592_666_1_.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"By midday it was hard to find any free space on the sand\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">By midday it was hard to find any free space on the sand(Image: John Myers)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of people have been pictured at Barry Island on Monday as Wales enjoyed another day of blazing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":984458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5010],"tags":[29827,748,188,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":["post-984457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wales","tag-barry","tag-britain","tag-crime","tag-great-britain","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wales"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116637021361543515","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984457","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=984457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/984458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}