{"id":672169,"date":"2026-07-03T19:23:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T19:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/672169\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T19:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T19:23:14","slug":"thousands-of-homes-lose-internet-during-maghull-sewer-repairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/672169\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of homes lose internet during Maghull sewer repairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A suspected accident by contractors carrying out sewer repair work has resulted in an internet and phone-line blackout for about 3,000 customers in part of Merseyside. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Broadband provider Openreach said workers carrying out sewer excavation work on Hall Lane, Maghull, caused &#8220;significant damage&#8221; to part of its underground network. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Businesses and residents in the area have been without internet or landlines since about 13:00 BST on Thursday &#8211; and so far there is &#8220;no timescale&#8221; for repairs, it added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Joy Sinnott, who works at Meadows Pharmacy on Liverpool Road South near the excavation site, said the issue had caused &#8220;chaos&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said staff at the pharmacy first realised something was wrong at lunchtime on Thursday, but initially believed it was their own network provider. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, customers soon began reporting a raft of problems throughout the area. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since then, the business has had to cope with no phone line, one working computer and no card payment machines. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is crazy just how much everything depends on the internet,&#8221; Sinnott said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Obviously it&#8217;s one day but with no internet we&#8217;ve got no access to patient prescriptions, patient records and with the phones obviously we haven&#8217;t got access to GP surgeries.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A suspected accident by contractors carrying out sewer repair work has resulted in an internet and phone-line blackout&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-672169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672169","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=672169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}