Food vans serving free hot food to the thousands of people still without power
Date published: 27 December 2015
Food vans are located at Jutland Avenue (OL11 5DP) and Thrush Street (OL12 7BZ) serving free hot food to the thousands of people still without power.
Over 4,000 remain without power and it is understood it will be at least Monday (28 December) afternoon before power is restored to thousands of properties that have been without power since Saturday morning.
Electricity users in the OL11 and OL12 areas are being asked to conserve energy where possible to reduce the risk of further outages.
The power cut came about due to severe flooding at the area's main substation.
Flood defences at Rochdale substation were upgraded in 2010 as part of a £468k scheme to protect power supplies against a '1-in-200-year' flood.
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