{"id":70450,"date":"2020-03-30T10:37:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T09:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=70450"},"modified":"2020-03-30T10:37:11","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T09:37:11","slug":"m25-graffiti-replaced-with-heartwarming-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/m25-graffiti-replaced-with-heartwarming-message\/","title":{"rendered":"M25 Graffiti Replaced With Heartwarming Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cThank you NHS\u201d has been painted on a bridge on the motorway notorious for it graffiti.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_70464\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70464\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-70464\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/33DD131A-5ED1-4BFB-94CE-9BC453189598-300x166.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/33DD131A-5ED1-4BFB-94CE-9BC453189598-300x166.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/33DD131A-5ED1-4BFB-94CE-9BC453189598-768x425.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/33DD131A-5ED1-4BFB-94CE-9BC453189598-600x332.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/33DD131A-5ED1-4BFB-94CE-9BC453189598.jpeg 828w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-70464\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new bridge art.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The bridge now used to say \u201cgive peas a chance\u201d and was recognised by many.<\/p>\n<p>But now, the message \u201cthank you NHS\u201d has been painted on the bridge, to many peoples delight. It\u2019s not entirely clear who put it there, on the bridge owned by Network Rail.<\/p>\n<p>A Facebook group to celebrate the original graffiti has more than 9,000 members in it.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cpeas\u201d message was painted over and replaced with the word \u201cHelch\u201d\u00a0in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Marc P Summers, admin of the Facebook group, said: &#8220;This is the greatest thing to happen to the bridge since it was messed with by Helch over 18 months ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are super happy and wish this to stay forever.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The NHS deserve this as recognition for all their hard work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Peas is believed to be a graffiti artist from London, and the original work on the bridge just read \u201cpeas\u201d. But \u201cgive [peas] a chance\u201d was added later on, possibly referring to the artists frequent arrests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThank you NHS\u201d has been painted on a bridge on the motorway notorious for it graffiti. The bridge now used to say \u201cgive peas a chance\u201d and was recognised by many. But now, the message \u201cthank you NHS\u201d has been painted on the bridge, to many peoples delight. 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