UK weather - live: Storms Malik and Corrie leave thousands without power after 90mph winds
Northern Powergrid, which supplies northern England, said around 80,000 customers were affected
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Your support makes all the difference.Schools will be shut and thousands of people are without power after Storm Malik and Storm Corrie battered parts of the UK.
Gusts up to 93mph hit parts of northern England and Scotland over the weekend after back-to-back storms brought damage killing a nine-year-old boy from Staffordshire and a 60-year-old woman from Aberdeen.
Northern Powergrid, which supplies northern England, said around 80,000 customers were affected by Storm Malik, which brought winds of more than 90mph on Saturday.
Some 7,000 were still without power at 6.30pm on Sunday, although the company said that it hoped to cut that to 4,000 during the night.
Met Office meteorologist Alex Burkill said: "That is exceptionally strong for any time of the year and there is no wonder there were significant impacts such as power outages and damage to buildings. It is very unfortunate that things were worse than that for some people."
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the impact of Storm Corrie is “likely to be significant”.
4,000 customers still without power from Storm Malik - Northern Grid update
As of 8am, Northern Grid has confirmed some 4,000 customers are still without power from Storm Malik.
There are still 200 incidents to restore supplies to customers across Northumberland, County Durham and Tyne & Wear where people are most impacted.
Northern Grid has confirmed that a “small number” of outages will run into Tuesday due to the weather causing additional disruption overnight.
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