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Engineers working to restore power to properties cut off by Storm Arwen have described the storm as the most damaging since 1987 and they have seen more incidents than any other single storm.

Hundreds of Electricity North West engineers are working on damaged power lines across Cumbria.

Hundreds of Electricity North West engineers are working on damaged power lines across Cumbria.

Electricity North West engineers are continuing to make progress repairing the region’s power network which was ‘dismantled’ by Storm Arwen.

How the government is supporting those affected by Storm Arwen and what steps you can take if your power goes off.

Electricity North West engineers are continuing to make progress repairing the region’s power network which was ‘dismantled’ by Storm Arwen.

Electricity North West work at Coniston to restore power. Picture: Electricity North West

Accommodation for those badly affected by the storm has been secured.

House. once we managed to get the phone up in the car, we found the primary school were offering three meals a day and a warm environment, so there is the last couple of days, we took an elderly friend along as well, because the thing is, i was told yesterday by the sse manager in the future do you want to go on the priority services register and i said to them, we are actually already on that. i got a text the day before the storm struck advising the right to be power outages in the area and to...

LARGE parts of Cumbria have been affected by Storm Arwen over the last few days.