{"id":813788,"date":"2026-10-25T21:06:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T21:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/813788\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T21:06:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T21:06:21","slug":"around-200-homes-without-power-after-tree-damages-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/813788\/","title":{"rendered":"Around 200 homes without power after tree damages pole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Wigan Council confirmed the outage in Golborne and Lowton this afternoon (Sunday, October 25) after a tree came down on Slag Lane, damaging a telephone pole.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Electricity North West&#8217;s website states that the company is investigating the power cut and estimates that supplies will be restored by 6pm on Tuesday, October 27.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  An emergency rest centre is being set up at Ashton Leisure Centre, Old Road, Ashton-in-Makerfield, for residents affected by the outage.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  People who can make their own way to the centre have been urged to do so, although limited transport is available for those unable to travel independently.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Residents needing a lift should meet a member of council staff at Golborne Parkside, Rivington Avenue, Golborne.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Wigan Council said the tree had also damaged a telephone pole and confirmed Slag Lane would remain closed until repairs could be safely carried out.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, Electricity North West and council staff are at the scene.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The electricity restoration time is an estimate and may change as investigations and repair <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leighjournal.co.uk\/jobs?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">work<\/a> continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wigan Council confirmed the outage in Golborne and Lowton this afternoon (Sunday, October 25) after a tree came&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-813788","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\/813788","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=813788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}