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It seems even the more remote parts of the UK are
not exempt from wire and cable theft.
Thieves caused damage to a bre optic cable
in Loch Carron, Scotland, and left 7,000 people
in Skye, Lochalsh and the Western Isles without
telephone and Internet services.
British Telecom managed to repair the cable
during low tide on the loch and restore services.
The full story is on page 12.
Staying north of the border, on page 21 is the
story of super-fast broadband being rolled out in
Scotland to the tune of a further £32m.
This is on top of the £68m that had already been
made available in 2011 from the Rural Broadband
Fund.
In addition to these stories in the busy corporate
news section, there is also an excellent feature on
spring forming and bending (page 44), ranging
from company news to latest developments in
that sector of the industry.
Our popular ‘Focus On’ feature this month turns
towards Germany – home of the most important
wire exhibition every two years in Düsseldorf.
Aside from the successes at wire 2012, there’s a
whole range of new machinery and news from
one of the largest wire and cable producing areas
of the world. See page 50.
We then turn our attention to places a little further
from home – China and India to be precise.
At the forthcoming wire China 2012 in September,
more than 750 companies will be exhibiting in
Shanghai. Details are on page 60.
And then a month
later it is the turn of
Wire and Cable India
as companies head for
Mumbai. The preview
can be found on page
64.
David Bell
Editor
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