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Express & Star 30 Dec 10
Around 18,000 homes in Walsall were left without power in the second blackout in the area within weeks following a huge failure in the electricity supply network.
Power was returned to properties after engineers carried out repairs to a fault on the high voltage system on Wednesday afternoon. Properties in Palfrey were among those affected at 3.20pm yesterday in the WS1 postcode area…
Business
Build 16 Nov 10
A Solihull construction firm has been fined after one of its workers suffered burns when his drill hit a power cable in Rushall, Walsall.
The worker, who asked not to be named, was using a pneumatic drill to dig a trench at the Taylor Wimpey housing development at Westminster Place when he struck an 11kv cable under the pavement on 13 August 2009…
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Ed Chadwick B'ham Post 7 Oct 10
Birmingham city centre was plunged in to brief but total chaos today when offices and shops were hit by a huge power cut.
The blackout struck at 12.23pm on Thursday, leaving more than 20,000 homes and business premises without electricity from the Bullring to the Jewellery Quarter…
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Advertiser 15 Jul 10
Hundreds of residents in Bloxwich were left without electricity after “senseless” vandals cut through a wooden power pole.
More than 600 people had no power because of the damage, which was discovered by a farmer on Fishley Lane last Wednesday afternoon…
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TheYamYam 29 Apr 10
More than 1,400 homes were left without power after an underground cable fault in Walsall Wood.
The blackout struck at 2:15pm on Wednesday and left many houses and business with no electricity for more than two hours.
Engineers managed to isolate the fault and restore power to most of those affected by about 5pm.
Business
Alun Thorne B'ham Post 6 Apr 10
The lights must not go out on the West Midlands, the Institute of Directors has warned. If they did, manufacturing industry would be decimated, with the region’s vulnerable economy hard hit.
Energy security had to be at the top of the agenda for whoever won the upcoming General Election, insisted chairman Richard Boot. An IoD national survey found that 85 per cent of business leaders supported new nuclear power stations…
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Lee Jordan's Weblog 5 Apr 10
Over Easter we’ve had a few powercuts in Walsall. I returned home Easter Sunday to a dream type scene, of no traffic and no traffic lights either! Upon getting home there was no power to the appartment complex either and alarms going off. Like something from 28 Yams Later…
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William Oliphant B’ham Mail 24 Mar 10
Hundreds of commuters between Birmingham and London were delayed after a power cut caused signalling problems on trains. A disruption in the power supply between Milton Keynes and Wolverhampton caused signals to go offline from 4pm on Tuesday and power was not restored until 7pm…
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Cllr Ian Shires 16 Jan 10
Parts of Short Heath were plunged into darkness on Friday night leaving residents with questions as to what could be the cause of a very localised outage…
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Express & Star 8 Jan 10
More than 700 shops and homes lost electricity in Walsall town centre on Thursday affecting shops at the Old Square shopping centre. In Wolverhampton more than 5,100 homes and properties were without power for more than two-and-a-half hours after a cable failure. Central Network said both power cuts weren’t caused by the weather, but the biting conditions hampered engineers attempting to repair the faults…