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           <description><![CDATA[  A DECISION on whether to fine a company for a power cut that plunged 94,000 homes into darkness has been delayed by two months.
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  THE electricity company responsible for one of the biggest power cuts in recent years, has launched a new text messaging service for customers during a power failure.
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           <description><![CDATA[  ENERGY watchdog Ofgem says it is proposing to impose a £2m penalty on EDF Energy Networks for last year’s power cut which affected 94,000 homes.
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           <description><![CDATA[  COUNCIL leaders in Bexley and Dartford are demanding the immediate publication of a report into last summer’s power cut.
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           <title>POWER CUT: Report on who was to blame delayed yet again</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[  A REPORT on who was to blame for the power cut which plunged thousands of people into darkness for up to four days, has been delayed again.
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           <description><![CDATA[  POLICE have admitted they may never be able to catch the culprits behind July’s three day power cut.
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  RESULTS of an independent audit into the massive power cut in July which left thousands of homes without power, has been delayed.
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           <description><![CDATA[  AN MP has called for ministers to step into the row over the July powercut which left thousands of people without electricity for up to three days.
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           <description><![CDATA[  AS THE deadline looms for people to claim their payments from EDF Energy for the massive powercut in July, it has been revealed people may be entitled to claim more than the company’s “goodwill”
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           <description><![CDATA[  AN MP has met senior officials from energy watchdog Ofgem to discuss July’s three-day power cut in Dartford.
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           <description><![CDATA[  ENERGY watchdog Ofgem has asked an independent auditor to investigate the power cut in July which left nearly 100,000 people without electricity.
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           <description><![CDATA[  PEOPLE entitled to compensation from electricity company EDF Energy can get help to make their claim at two more events in the coming week.
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           <description><![CDATA[  PRESSURE is mounting on the power company at the centre of Bexley’s worst power cut for 30 years, to pay compensation the the biggest losers.
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           <description><![CDATA[  A MAN whose home was without power for three days during the recent major power cut claims the power company failed to install proper security.
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           <title>POWER CUT: Cable repairs could cost millions and take two years</title>
           
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  PERMANENT repairs to the damaged electricity cables which caused a mass power cut in large parts of Bexley, Dartford and Orpington could take up to two years and cost millions of pounds.
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           <title>The light stays on for Istead's veterans</title>
           
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  THE recent power cut may have caused chaos for many in the News Shopper region but one unlikely beneficiary to emerge from the fiasco are the men’s veterans team of Istead &amp; Ifield Harriers
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           <title>BEXLEY: The power may be back, but the anger continues</title>
           
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  ANGRY electricity customers have been left counting the cost after the worst power cut for 30 years hit homes across Bexley.
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           <title>SLADE GREEN: No light or water for 87-year-old stranded in power cut</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[  A MUM of two spoke of her anxiety about her great uncle, aged 87, who lives on the eighth floor of a tower block.
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           <description><![CDATA[  THOUSANDS of people left without electricity during the three-day power cut could receive “a goodwill gesture” of £50.
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           <description><![CDATA[  ENERGY company EDF say they will be offering “goodwill” payments to customers worst affected by last week’s three-day power cut.
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           <description><![CDATA[  TRAFFIC lights were out, shops unable to open, and residents made to rely on candles as a power cut left thousands without electricity for three days.
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           <description><![CDATA[  RESIDENTS in Dartford faced further power misery this morning after a generator serving the area stopped working.
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           <description><![CDATA[  EDF Energy Networks says it has restored electricity to all Bexley customers following Monday’s power failure.
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           <title>POWER CUT UPDATE: Police say vandals or thieves could have caused fire to electricity cables</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[  POLICE are keeping an open mind on whether the fire that brought a power cut to thousands of residents was caused by vandals or thieves.
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           <description><![CDATA[  GENERATORS have been brought in from as far afield as Scotland as EDF Energy Networks works to restore electricity supplies to parts of Bexley, Dartford and Orpington.
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           <description><![CDATA[  A FAMILY-OF-SIX escaped unscathed from a house fire caused by a candle that was being used during the ongoing power cut.
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           <description><![CDATA[  MANY thousands of people across Bexley, Dartford and Orpington are still without power this morning following a fire yesterday which damaged four major high voltage electricity cables.
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           <description><![CDATA[  WITH power supplies still down in Bexleyheath's town centre, Bexley Council was accepting only emergency calls today (July 21).
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           <description><![CDATA[  THOUSANDS of households across the Dartford, Welling, Orpington and Bexleyheath areas could be without electricity for another 36 hours after a fire damaged power cables yesterday.
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           <description><![CDATA[  ELECTRICITY engineers were still struggling tonight to restore power to many thousands of customers whose supply was cut off following major fire damage to high voltage electricity cables.
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