{"id":340430,"date":"2025-08-13T06:08:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T06:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/340430\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T06:08:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T06:08:18","slug":"birkenhead-power-cut-hits-hundreds-of-homes-as-cup-tie-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/340430\/","title":{"rendered":"Birkenhead power cut hits hundreds of homes as cup tie postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Hundreds of homes in Birkenhead have been left without electricity.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">SP Energy Networks said an &#8220;unexpected&#8221; power cut at 18:52 BST had affected the CH42 area of Birkenhead in Wirral and warned problems were likely to continue until 23:07.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In most cases, our engineers can get your power back on by simply replacing a fuse at the local substation, however, if the fault is complex, this may take us longer to fix,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spenergynetworks.co.uk\/pages\/power_cuts_map.aspx\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">its website reads, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The power cut led to the postponement, shortly before the scheduled 19:45 kick-off, of the Carabao Cup tie between Tranmere Rovers and Burton Albion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of homes in Birkenhead have been left without electricity. SP Energy Networks said an &#8220;unexpected&#8221; power cut&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-340430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115019966443192430","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340430","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=340430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}