will be restored. more than 20,000 households across the north of england have spent a fourth night without power. our correspondent, alison freeman, is in the village of blanchland in northumberland, where the situation is said to be getting �*desperate'. just how desperate? this is one of the places where some of those 20,000 or so houses across the north—east, talking about northumberland, county durham and northumberland, county durham and north yorkshire, are still without power. there are also problems over the pennines in cumbria in some of the pennines in cumbria in some of the outlying villages there which have been heavily affected by snow. no power means no heating, hot water or hot food. on top of that, some of these places simply haven't had any fresh water supply at all. they are also without mobile phone and internet and are starting to feel really quite isolated. we know that in a lot of these communities, the