"After Storm Arwen, the power companies were getting everyone on these priority registers but they are absolutely no use at all if you haven't got a working phone. "It's a huge problem, because we ...

The village of Porlock went without power for 30 hours and power was lost ... the findings of its review into the response to Storm Arwen. Dan Fancy, a specialist energy advisor from a Citizens ...

New measures brought in by Northumberland County Council in the wake of the devastating Storm Arwen have been praised ... of thousands of homes left without power - some for up to two weeks.

Work is still ongoing to plant thousands of trees to replace those felled by the brutal winds that were brought to the north-east by Storm Arwen - one of the most destructive in recent memory.