Guardian: 7,408 homes still without power
Electricity North West appears to have made some progress restoring power to homes in the north-west but more than 7,400 homes remain cut off.
Steve Cox, Electricity North Wests incident manager, said: While we still have a significant amount of work to do to fully repair the substation, our teams have worked round the clock and done enough to restore power to a large number of customers earlier than expected.
Rather than wait any longer for the full repair...