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Fishermen\u2019s Commissioners \u2014 Staithes (4) Sean Baxter David Hanson Martin Hopkinson Matthew Ward Fishermen\u2019s Commissioner \u2014 Runswick Bay (1) Richard Cole Richard Cole continues as the existing commissioner for Runswick Bay, agreeing to stand…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15071","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","description-off"],"campaignId":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.staithesharbour.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.staithesharbour.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.staithesharbour.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.staithesharbour.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.staithesharbour.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15071"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.staithesharbour.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15126,"href":"http:\/\/www.staithesharbour.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15071\/revisions\/15126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.staithesharbour.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

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