Army called in to help thousands in north of England after a week without power due to Storm Arwen
Speaking in the Commons, Westmorland and Lonsdale MP Tim Farron called for the Army to also assist engineers in Cumbria.
But spokesperson Paul Bircham said he was "not sure the Army have the engineering capability to work on high voltage electricity networks". Nurse Joanne Wiig, who lives in Harbottle in Northumberland, is without electricity, hot water and phone signal and has been forced to sleep in her living room to keep warm.Her neighbour, Ann Randall, said she was worried about how people would call the emergency services without a phone signal."You are going to have dead people out in the villages.
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