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Major UK Comms Backbone Bunker Burned Out

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the no-smoke-without-etc dept.

evilandi writes "The BBC are reporting that much of Manchester, England is without telephone service following a fire in a major underground tunnel system. The site in question is strongly suspected to be the 'Guardian' nuclear communications bunker system which is one of the main three UK subterranean communications backbone bunkers. The giveaway is this regional BBC news story which mentions Chapel Street, one of the very few entrance/exit points to the 'Guardian' system. If confirmed, Manchester could be without wired communications for some time. The MANAP Manchester Network Access Point regional Internet hub is officially reporting nothing, but a number of UK admins are seeing significant disruption."

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  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    lol

  2. the new skinny puppy album rules by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    redeem yourself by getting your junk touched at #teens4christ @__________________@

  3. 1st by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First Post

  4. This is clearly of global import. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oh wait, no it isn't.

    FIRE IN EVANSVILLE, INDIANA!
    Leaves twelve without pizza delivery service.
    FILM AT ELEVEN

  5. Terrorism? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Is this the next step towards moslem domination of Europe? We've already seen Spain cower in fear of the terrorists, will we now see the english bend over and take it from Bin Laden and friends, too?

  6. first p05t by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    and building is And/vor distribute AMERICA) might be Demise. You don't and reports and real problems risk looking even EFNet servers. encountered while propaganda and Is part of the Project faces a set FUCKING USELESS Not going to play Culture of abuse track of where Smith only serve *BSD BUT FREEBSD

  7. That's it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sir Alex, please pack your bags and leave!

  8. John "Eff'ing" Kerry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dear Senator Kerry,

    I watched your 1971 Dick Cavett Show appearance on C-SPAN last night. You were pretty sure of your position but I don't know. I've worked with soldiers, airmen, sailors, and marines for my entire professional life, and many retired military who served in Vietnam. Almost all of them served there for longer than four months. Not one of them was a war criminal.

    Are you *sure* that pretty much every US military person who saw combat in Vietname was a war criminal? That what you said, after all.

    Please let us all know. Thanks.

    1. Re:John "Eff'ing" Kerry by sinergy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Dear President Bush, I've tried to read your military records that were supposedly made public, but I don't know. I've worked with soldiers, airmen, sailors, and marines for my entire professional life, and many retired military who served in Vietnam. Almost all of them actually served in battle, and can vouch for where they were during that year. Maybe they were war criminals. But I am *sure* you weren't. That's what I think, after all.

      --
      ...
  9. Re:This could never happend in France by GrahamCox · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Yes they do. They stood up to your warmongering idiot president and told him to fuck off, when the other western poodles Blair and Howard couldn't manage it. That's backbone.