[Stuart C]

Originally Posted by cliveb

Where did you get this info from?

The buildings right next to the Buncefield Depot were the Fujifilm warehouse (flattened) and the Northgate headquarters (still standing but structurally written off). 3Com also had a building fairly close, but I believe that wasn't completely wrecked. I am fairly certain there is no NTL building close to Buncefield. I know the area well - used to work in the Northgate building when it was still MDIS, and my wife was working for Northgate until July. (Had the explosion happened during office hours, she would probably now be dead - her desk was buried under two feet of rubble). It's vaguely possible that Northgate were hosting some of NTL's back office systems (since hosting is one of Northgate's core activities), but they had pretty much all their clients' systems up & running at a DR site within a matter of days.

Actually, someone (an NTL engineer IIRC) posted it on this forum.

Also, Digital Spy have a story about an NTL statement on the disaster.. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds27289.html

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Originally Posted by Chalky

Stuart - I regularly drive through the industrial estate, as I live very close to it, and I have seen the damage. I know there are still a lot of damaged buildings, but I would have assumed that 9 months would be sufficient time to rectify this, especially for a company the size of NTL. However, the engineer seemed to imply that the work did not come as a priority as they did not have enough complaints about it.

TBH, I would personally be surprised if it took nine months to repair the damage. I was just pointing out that I was told they do have a facility near there that was damaged by the blast.