Canadian beavers chomp down town's internet
BBC News Published image captionBeavers are the national animal of Canada Beavers have been blamed after a town in the Canadian province of British Columbia lost their internet service for some 12 hours. The provider Telus said that parts of the underground cabling, servicing Tumbler Ridge, had been found in the beavers' home. Some 900 internet users and 60 TV customers were affected, it said. Telus spokeswoman Liz Sauvé described it as a "very unusual and uniquely Canadian turn of events". The service went down at around 04:00 local time on Saturday. Telus said when crews went to a nearby d...