Engineers from Electricity North West have restored power to all but 300 customers in Lancaster, Morecambe and the surrounding area.

Engineers from Electricity North West have restored power to 45,000 homes in Lancaster, Morecambe and the surrounding area and are continuing efforts to restore the remaining 10,000 later this morning.

The power supply to 42,000 customers in Lancaster, Morecambe, Carnforth has been lost at 4pm this afternoon.

Having assessed the damage caused by flooding that has resulted in further loss of supply at Lancaster, our engineers have plans in place to begin the restoration of supplies from approximately 0800 on 8 December.

Engineers from Electricity North West are working hard in extremely difficult conditions to restore the remaining 2,657 properties in Cumbria and 300 in Lancaster and surrounding areas.

Electricity North West is continuing to work throughout the night to restore power to customers where possible.

Electricity North West has asked for support from partners and other electricity networks around the country to provide additional generators to the area to restore power to priority customers in Lancaster.

Electricity North West engineers have now restored power to 24,000 homes in Cumbria and Lancashire since Saturday morning, including 11,000 in Lancaster affected by flooding at a major substation.

Electricity North West plans to commence planned power outages in Carlisle at around 4pm today to prevent 60,000 customers from losing power at once.

Engineers from Electricity North West are continuing to work with emergency services in response to large power outages across the region.

55,000 properties in Lancaster, Morecambe, Carnforth and the surrounding area could be without power for a number of days following flooding to a major electricity substation in the area.

Electricity North West engineers and partner agencies are working to safeguard power supplies to 60,000 properties in Carlisle.