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Did you know... that the 2019 collapse of Welsh construction company Dawnus caused gridlock in part of
Manchester as equipment was left in the highway?
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... that the 2019 collapse of Welsh construction company Dawnus caused gridlock in part of Manchester as plant was left in the highway? Source: "Manchester was left gridlocked on Tuesday and Wednesday after workers stopped in protest at 'not being paid' by Dawnus. They were working on a major project in the city centre when they left four large diggers and a truck in the middle of a road." from: Deacon, Thomas; Farell-Roig, Estel (14 March 2019).
"City gridlocked as construction firm Dawnus 'fails to pay workers'". WalesOnline. Retrieved 21 February 2022.
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New enough and long enough. QPQ present. Hook fact checks out, but I would suggest to the promoter replacing "plant" with "equipment" or "heavy equipment"; I was given the distinct impression they had left plants in the road, and I suspect a lot of US readers would too. ALT0a with this change made below.
Sammi Brie (she/her •
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c) 23:37, 23 February 2022 (UTC)reply
ALT0a: ... that the 2019 collapse of Welsh construction company Dawnus caused gridlock in part of
Manchester as equipment was left in the highway?
A fact from Dawnus appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 March 2022 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the 2019 collapse of Welsh construction company Dawnus caused gridlock in part of
Manchester as equipment was left in the highway?
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Companies, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of
companies on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as
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The result was: promoted by
SL93 (
talk) 18:10, 12 March 2022 (UTC)reply
... that the 2019 collapse of Welsh construction company Dawnus caused gridlock in part of Manchester as plant was left in the highway? Source: "Manchester was left gridlocked on Tuesday and Wednesday after workers stopped in protest at 'not being paid' by Dawnus. They were working on a major project in the city centre when they left four large diggers and a truck in the middle of a road." from: Deacon, Thomas; Farell-Roig, Estel (14 March 2019).
"City gridlocked as construction firm Dawnus 'fails to pay workers'". WalesOnline. Retrieved 21 February 2022.
Moved to mainspace by
Dumelow (
talk). Self-nominated at 07:46, 22 February 2022 (UTC).reply
New enough and long enough. QPQ present. Hook fact checks out, but I would suggest to the promoter replacing "plant" with "equipment" or "heavy equipment"; I was given the distinct impression they had left plants in the road, and I suspect a lot of US readers would too. ALT0a with this change made below.
Sammi Brie (she/her •
t •
c) 23:37, 23 February 2022 (UTC)reply
ALT0a: ... that the 2019 collapse of Welsh construction company Dawnus caused gridlock in part of
Manchester as equipment was left in the highway?