More than 1,500 households across the northwest of England have been left without electricity over the Christmas holidays, according to data from PowerOutage.com. The outages have reportedly affected the regions of Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Cheshire an Lancashire. The worst affected region appears to be Cumbria, where 1,301 customers have reportedly suffered from an outage. Meanwhile in Cheshire East, up to 181 households have experienced a power cut, figures show.
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