True story.
Got home from work one evening to a power cut.
Gave it a few hours before phoning to ask how long we'd be off. Apparently, there were no power cuts in our area.
"Check the fuse box", like they think they were talking to an idiot. I'd done this 2 hours earlier.
Basically, next door had had a new 'feed' fitted from the street, instead of from their other next door neighbour.
The contractor paid by Bolsover Council had cut the wires between our house and next door.
This cut the lecky supply to our house and our other neighbour.
We didn't get the power back till the next day.
We ran an extension cable from next door to ours so we had a bit of lecky over night.
EoN spent the next week installing separate feeds to most of the houses on the street.