Late-morning power failure blacks out the Royal Wedding

Saturday 30th April 2011, 2:29PM BST.

PEOPLE in parts of St Andrew’s and Castel were left disappointed when a high voltage network fault left many without power for more than an hour and interrupted their viewing of the Royal Wedding.

Le Vauquiedor and La Brigade in St Andrew’s were affected, as was La Chaumiere in Castel.

The power cut out at 9.51am and supplies were restored at 11.04am.

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Andre

May 1, 2011 at 7:58 am

Bad timing methinks…
This is why everyone should have a backup generator, you just never know when you might need it.
A friend uses a surplus UPS with four car batteries as a very effective substitute, he gets around 10 hours from this setup.

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Ray

May 3, 2011 at 9:16 am

Andre

OR,he could install £11,000 worth of special roof tiles as recently reported

Oh no,that will only power a couple of dozen 60 watt light bulbs

I think I’ll wait for an upgrade on that invention

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