The pipe burst at the junction of Lincomb Road and Liverpool Road in Huyton on Monday morning.

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Severn Trent said the pipe burst on Wednesday evening and staff had worked through the night to repair it.

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Part of a main road has collapsed in Surrey leaving a car submerged in water after a mains pipe burst.

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One winter day, a pipe burst in our basement, and my mother had no idea what to do, so I called my father and figured out how to fix it.

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He carried out further work following a burst pipe at the property a few months later.

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Last summer an 83-year-old pipe in Manhattan burst, sending a geyser of steam and debris into the air.

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Severn Trent said the problem affecting Ysgol Bro Ddyfi in Machnylleth was down to a burst pipe, and 45 people had phoned to complain that they had no water.

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Television footage showed shattered windows in a nearby building and flooding from a burst water pipe.

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And on Monday a burst in a parallel pipe flooded the road, close to the entrance of St Peter's Hospital, forcing traffic to take a detour for several hours and leaving householders in the area temporarily without water.

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