Thousands of people remain without power in rural areas of north-east England and Aberdeenshire
“Anyone who thinks there is romanticism to reading by candlelight needs their head examined,” said 69-year-old Fran Marshall as she braced herself for a sixth night without power. “There is no romance. None whatsoever. It has been freezing cold and it has been miserable.”
Marshall lives in a picture-postcard patch of north Northumberland, her 19th-century stone cottage nestled in a valley below a spectacular hill called Yeavering Bell, or the Hill of the Goats.
