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
frustration they are starting to feel is that they are being given times when the power is meant to be coming back on, but those deadlines simply aren t being met. northern power grid, which covers this part of the country, says it has been dealing with hundreds of incidents of power cables being knocked out by storm arwen, and it is doing everything it can to deal with them, but people here today have told me that they are starting to feel forgotten. they are relying on places like the local pub here in blanchland, which is helping to check up on the elderly, using its generator to charge up everything from hearing aids to ipads and mobile phones, so that sense of community is really keeping everybody going, clive. alison, many thanks. child abusers could face longer sentences in england and wales under plans announced by the ministry ofjustice. the new measures have been called tony s law following a campaign by the adoptive family of a seven year old boy, tony hudgell, who had to
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