{"id":147554,"date":"2025-09-19T14:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T14:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/147554\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T14:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T14:49:09","slug":"internet-to-return-after-last-months-fire-in-ellesmere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/147554\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet to return after last month&#8217;s fire in Ellesmere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Openreach confirmed that repairs which have been underway since a fire destroyed a telephone junction box in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bordercountiesadvertizer.co.uk\/news\/ellesmere\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ellesmere<\/a> are nearing completion.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The fire, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bordercountiesadvertizer.co.uk\/news\/25428245.fire-crews-bt-box-destroyed-ellesmere-blaze\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">which destroyed a BT box close to Ellesmere Marina in Birch Road,<\/a> left a number of residents without internet access since it burned down on August 30.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Residents have been waiting for the best part of a month to get their service back and were informed this week that a further delay had occurred\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  However, Openreach have confirmed that the \u201ccomplex\u201d and \u201ctime consuming\u201d job is expected to be completed next week.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Help support trusted local news\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Sign up for a digital subscription now:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bordercountiesadvertizer.co.uk\/subscribe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.bordercountiesadvertizer.co.uk\/subscribe\/<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  As a digital subscriber you will get\n<\/p>\n<p>Unlimited access to the\u00a0Oswestry Advertizer website<\/p>\n<p>  Advert-light access<\/p>\n<p>  Reader rewards<\/p>\n<p>\n  An Openreach spokesperson said: \u201cOne of our cabinets was damaged by fire, disrupting service for customers in the area.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThe cabinet has been re-shelled and replacement cables added. Engineers are currently in the process of installing these cables.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThis is a complex and time-consuming job. We hope to have it completed early next week.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Openreach confirmed that repairs which have been underway since a fire destroyed a telephone junction box in Ellesmere&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1638,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-147554","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}