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Cemetery tests led to blackout

10:40am Thursday 16th February 2012 in News

Work to investigate a possible cemetery in Horspath Road, Cowley, caused a power cut to 100,000 homes and businesses.

The power cut just before noon on Tuesday lasted just under an hour, with many people experiencing shorter blackouts and flickering electricity supply.

A spokesman for Oxford City Council said s sub contractor doing tests at the site for potential new burial space in Oxford went through an electricity cable.

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Comments(8)

brmath says...
11:11am Thu 16 Feb 12

thankyou it is nice to know why

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The Big Issue says...
11:35am Thu 16 Feb 12

Shocking breach of health and safety.

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andrewt88 says...
11:36am Thu 16 Feb 12

This story isn't half as interesting as I was first led to believe. It sounded like Horspath Road houses had been built on an ancient burial ground which, in the event of torrential rain, could have left us with hoards of exposed skeletons and the possibility of a little girl with a toy clown at the end of her bed communicating with the after life through the static frequency of her television. Instead, I've been left disappointed that the contractors were merely searching for potential space for a new burial site. Not nearly as exciting.

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Dilligaf2010 says...
11:56am Thu 16 Feb 12

Doesn't say much for the sub-contractor, did he not look at any utility blueprints, or use geophysics before digging his holes?

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Lady Penelopee says...
3:22pm Thu 16 Feb 12

Can't they just cremate people to save space?

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John Lamb says...
5:09pm Thu 16 Feb 12

People are always dying to get into a cemetery.

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patjay says...
5:14pm Thu 16 Feb 12

Electric shock sure way to get there on time

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Dilligaf2010 says...
7:11pm Thu 16 Feb 12

Explosion at local cemetery, hundreds dead.

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