News on Acton telephone problems

 Thanks to Acton correspondent Margaret Maybury for the following information:

'I have just spoken with the engineers working on the major telephone fault in Acton.

The fault is on the Sudbury Road between the entrance opposite THE CROWN INN and a bend in the Sudbury Road.  Simon, the engineer, informs me that the main underground cable has a fault and needs replacing.  However, due to the fibre optics there is not enough room to add another cable so the engineers at either end of the cable, talking by radio link, are putting in a new overland cable lying at the edge of the road so we hopefully will have telephone by tonight.  The old underground cable will be removed and a new one put in.  The engineers will be working all day and all night (I did warn them about cable theft) to rectify the situation and full telephone service will hopefully be in two days time.'