{"id":360717,"date":"2026-01-09T10:36:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T10:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/360717\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T10:36:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T10:36:06","slug":"hundreds-of-homes-without-power-after-underground-cable-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/360717\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of homes without power after underground cable incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hundreds of homes in Greater Manchester and on Merseyside have been left without power due to problems with an underground cable.<\/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":360718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-360717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360717","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=360717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}