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Last week we reported on how the Bedfordshire (England) towns and villages of Harlington, Toddington, Chalton and Tebworth had suffered a major broadband and phone outage after a gang of criminals stole some of Openreach’s (BT) core copper telecoms cables from Luton Road. Sadly a second theft occurred on the same road this week, as well as a third one near Wilstead.
The latest theft on Luton Road occurred on Wednesday 11th November 2026 – this time much nearer to Toddington itself, as spotted by the BBC News. Openreach informed ISPreview this afternoon that they have traffic management in place for the second theft from 12-16th November with engineers expected to be “working over the weekend” to fix it.
As if to make matters worse, the operator has confirmed that there was also third theft in the area – occurring in Wilstead further north – in the early hours of Thursday (12th Nov) morning – engineers are understood to be assessing the damage and police are investigating. The road is similar to Luton Road, so will need traffic management in place there to work safely.