{"id":142945,"date":"2020-05-05T15:49:10","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T13:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/05\/05\/mayor-criticised-over-refusal-to-reopen-middlesbrough-park\/"},"modified":"2020-05-05T15:49:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T13:49:10","slug":"mayor-criticised-over-refusal-to-reopen-middlesbrough-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=142945","title":{"rendered":"Mayor criticised over refusal to reopen Middlesbrough park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Preston ignores minister advice to open \u2018lifeline\u2019 in one of UK places most deprived and worst hit by Covid-19Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA mayor who lives in a country mansion with extensive gardens has been criticised for refusing to reopen parks in one of Britain\u2019s most deprived towns.Andy Preston, a hedge-fund millionaire who was elected as independent mayor for Middlesbrough last year, has ignored government advice to reopen three of the town\u2019s parks, despite receiving a letter from a minister, who is also a local MP, imploring all local authorities to do so. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2020\/may\/05\/mayor-criticised-over-refusal-to-reopen-middlesbrough-park\" target=\"_blank\">Mayor criticised over refusal to reopen Middlesbrough park<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Preston ignores minister advice to open \u2018lifeline\u2019 in one of UK places most deprived and worst hit by Covid-19Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA mayor who lives in a country mansion with extensive gardens has been criticised for refusing to reopen parks in one of Britain\u2019s most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}