Northern Powergrid is in its final push to reconnect households cut off by a storm which ravaged the region.
Storm Malik brought winds of up to 90mph to the North East, causing chaos on the roads, shutting the Tyne and Wear Metro and cutting power supplies to almost 80,000 people, mostly in Northumberland and County Durham.
The storm - which came less than three months after Storm Arwen wreaked havoc around the North East - led the Emergency Planning Strategic Co-ordination Groups (SCG) for County Durham and Darlington to declare a major incident.
