{"id":75925,"date":"2025-10-15T09:45:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T09:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/75925\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T09:45:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T09:45:16","slug":"car-fire-cuts-off-internet-to-beaminster-homes-and-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/75925\/","title":{"rendered":"Car fire cuts off internet to Beaminster homes and businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Tuesday morning, Dorset Council said it had &#8220;begun the process of recovering the vehicle&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson said: &#8220;We appreciate the public&#8217;s patience and understanding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Beaminster councillor Craig Monks said: &#8220;The reality of being disconnected from a utility like the internet is havoc for residents and business in Beaminster. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Accidents happen but we need to urgently restore connection.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Silvana Bandini, owner of the Ollerod restaurant, said his landline was also down and he was using his mobile phone as a hotspot to access &#8220;basics&#8221; such as emails, booking systems and card payments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;Everything runs wirelessly &#8211; our printer is connected via wi-fi, so we can&#8217;t print anything. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our music system is Sonos, which is all connected via wi-fi, so we have no music.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Beaminster Library said it was offering free wi-fi from 10:00 to 13:00 for anyone who needed it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dorset Police said officers were called to &#8220;a report of a vehicle fire following a single-vehicle collision in Beaminster&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson said: &#8220;The driver was not in the vehicle and enquiries [are being] carried out to try and locate them.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Tuesday morning, Dorset Council said it had &#8220;begun the process of recovering the vehicle&#8221;. A spokesperson said:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[85,123,46,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-75925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-internet","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}