{"id":684339,"date":"2026-01-09T11:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T11:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/684339\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T11:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T11:17:09","slug":"hundreds-of-homes-without-power-after-underground-cable-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/684339\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of homes without power after underground cable incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Hundreds of homes in Greater Manchester and on Merseyside have been left without power due to problems with an underground cable.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">SP Electricity North West (ENW) said 289 properties in St Helens, 149 in Bury, 87 in Oldham and 28 in Rochdale had been affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said the outage had been caused by &#8220;an unexpected incident&#8221; with an underground cable and stressed that it was not weather-related.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">ENW said it had either sent or was preparing to send teams to all affected areas, with electricity supplies provisionally expected to be restored between 10:20 and 12:40 GMT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of homes in Greater Manchester and on Merseyside have been left without power due to problems with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,2465,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-684339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-manchester","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115864865757248990","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684339","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=684339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}