Parts of Manchester offline, off phones due to fire

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A fire in a cabling tunnel has destroyed 130,000 lines used by homes and businesses. I don't know whether it might also affect ground cables for mobile comms.

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In addition, there is a BT office directly above the fire which was evacuated,
so there has been a lack of BT staff to work on things.