Power restored to Easington Lane properties after cable fault

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Image caption, Northern Powergrid is responsible for providing electricity to 3.9m households

About 180 homes in Tyne and Wear were left without electricity following a power cut in part of Sunderland.

Outages affecting Easington Lane village were reported at about 14:00 GMT with power restored to all properties by 18:30, Northern Powergrid said.

It had initially been estimated as many as 2,500 properties could have been affected by the fault.

However, engineers established a much smaller number were "off supply".

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