Openreach fined £1.34m after engineer drowns in river

Broadband network builder Openreach Limited has been fined £1.34m after an engineer died while trying to repair a telephone line.
Alun Owen,32, from Bethesda, died after he slipped and fell into the River Aber in Abergwyngregyn and was swept away on 6 October 2020.
An investigation by the HSE and North Wales Police found that a number of Openreach engineers had been attempting to repair the telephone lines, which ran across the river, over a period of two months. They had been working both