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tarquinlinbin writes:

Unfortunately its not so simple,,

It appears that in the course of excavating, this chap has damaged a
plastic gas main that is the property of National Grid Transco.
Officially this is classed as a third party damage and if NGT choose
to do so, they can seek to charge for the full cost of repairs and
they regularly DO pursue for damages becuase there is so much of it
going on. In years gone by, such things were not as common and the
cost were largely absorbed by the company unless it was a major damage
which ran into thousands or millions of pounds.

For cable companies damaging other company's services, a
fixed fee of £250 was defined, in order to ensure cable
installation was viable. I don't know if this applies only
to cable companies, or if it is in force between all the
other services.

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Andrew Gabriel