{"id":25358,"date":"2025-07-26T15:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T15:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/25358\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T15:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T15:38:08","slug":"cable-damage-disrupts-internet-services-in-orkney-and-shetland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/25358\/","title":{"rendered":"Cable damage disrupts internet services in Orkney and Shetland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Internet and phone services in Orkney and Shetland have been disrupted because of damage to a subsea cable. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shetland Telecom said the Shefa-2 cable between Orkney and Banff sustained damage at about 03:00. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The switchboard at Balfour Hospital in Kirkwall is currently down, with patients asked to call a mobile number instead. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The cable, which links Orkney, Shetland and the Faroe Islands to mainland Scotland, was last damaged three years ago in an incident thought to have been because of a fishing vessel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Internet and phone services in Orkney and Shetland have been disrupted because of damage to a subsea cable.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1638,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-25358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-internet","tag-internet","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25358","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=25358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}