Staff evacuated after gas leak

Factory staff were evacuated on Friday after a busy Peterborough road was forced to shut due to a gas leak.

Morley Way in Woodston was shut between the roundabout which links up with Shrewsbury Avenue, heading towards Whirlpool UK.

Police and firefighters were called before noon to the junction of Maxwell Road and Morley Way. The road was closed for a couple of hours with a 50m cordon put in place and the premises evacuated.

Fire crews from Stanground, Dogsthorpe and a water carrier from Ramsey attended the incident.

A spokesman for Cadent, which connects customers to the gas network, said: “A third party had damaged a gas service pipe (a service pipe supplies a property).”