Families evacuated after gas leak
Date published: 24 June 2013
A PUB and nine homes were evacuated in Dobcross following a gas leak on Friday afternoon.
Contractors installing a water main near The Navigation Inn, on Wool Road cut into a low-pressure pipe shortly after 2pm.
People were evacuated to Uppermill Civic Hall but were allowed to return four hours later.
Wool Road was closed in both directions during the repairs
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