Cumberland seems to have had its fair share of power problems this year. The latest, caused by a system fault left over 7,000 properties without power. 5,000 homes were initially hit by a network trip, but engineers then lost power to another 2,000 properties as they tried to fix the problem. A spokesman for United Utilities is quoted as saying: “With any distribution network you do get problems from time to time”. For more information read the Cumberland News piece.”

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