Internet restored after sliced fibre cables cause outage in Whanganui
1 May, 2021 11:00 PM
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288 individual fibres needed to be re-spliced overnight on Saturday. Photo / 123RF
Mike Tweed is a multimedia journalist at the Whanganui Chroniclemichael.tweed@nzme.co.nzWhangaChron
Broadband has been restored to more than 600 Whanganui properties after a 30-hour operation to restore severed fibre cables.
Two underground Ultrafast Fibre cables were completely were cut, leaving 660 customers in the St Johns Hill and Otamatea area without internet on Friday afternoon.
Ultrafast Fibre chief operations officer Richard Riley said he understood the outage was caused by third-party contractors who were working in the area.
Whanganui steps into Three Waters Reform Programme with water supply upgrades
7 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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Sedgebrook St in Whanganui East is one of several streets in line for a water supply upgrade. Photo / File
Laurel Stowell is a reporter for the Whanganui Chroniclelaurel.stowell@whanganuichronicle.co.nzWhangaChron
The Government s Three Water Reform Programme has started, with the Whanganui District Council letting tenders to upgrade the water supply in some areas of the city.
It has been able to do so due to Government funding for upgrades to drinking water, wastewater and stormwater systems as part of the reform process.
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Man dead after cops called to fight A woman has been charged, another is suffering head injuries and a man has been found dead after a fight broke out in Sydney’s west. Picture: NCA Newswire / Gaye Gerard
Crime by Erin Lyons 29th Dec 2020 7:38 AM A man was found unconscious and later died after police were called to a fight between two women in a neighbouring apartment in Sydney s west on Monday. Officers were called to Parkes Ave in Werrington about 4pm to reports two women were fighting. When they arrived at the unit, they found a woman, 37, suffering a head injury, and in a nearby apartment, a 43-year-old man was found unconscious.