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Lily Ford & Jonathon Manning

Energy customers mistakenly get cheques worth £2 trillion for Storm Arwen compensation

A UK energy company made a major blunder when it sent 74 customers compensation cheques for more than £2.3 trillion each.

Northern Powergrid is paying compensation to tens of thousands of customers who were left without power after Storm Arwen hit the country in November 2020.

But dozens of customers were mistakenly sent cheques worth trillions of pounds causing some people to take to Twitter to share the news.

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