Work on what’s been called a ‘super cable’ linking the UK with the Netherlands, has been underway here on the Suffolk coast.
The new fibre optic cable will connect data centres in both countries – will be the first of its kind in the North Sea – and replace cables first laid in the late 1990s – and almost doubling the data traffic capacity for internet use.
Leaving the shore at Pakefield – the new cable and eventually making its way across the sea to the Dutch city of IJmuiden.
Similar fibre optic connections already exist between London and Dublin – and now Amsterdam will be added to the network.
Although work on Pakefield beach has been completed, it will take until the middle of August before the work off the Lowestoft coast is completed.
Former Manchester United footballer Ryan Giggs allegedly kicked his ex-girlfriend in the back and threw her naked out of their hotel bedroom, a court has heard. The claim forms part of what is said to be a pattern of controlling and coercive behaviour against Kate Greville, 36, between August 2017 and November 2020. On Friday, Giggs appeared at Manchester Crown Court where he entered a not guilty plea to the […]
