Meanwhile, as John faces his 29th Christmas without electricity, Age Concern representative, Pat Lee, said that she wants Coleraine Borough Council to step in.

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You all know the story -- losing his mom, being raised and adopted by an aunt and uncle, growing up in a home without electricity or water, having to work at an early age.

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The Niswan School for Girls has no electricity or running water, but two hundred girls and women, ranging in age from six to twenty-three, come to study each morning.

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Following help from the older people's commissioner and Age Concern, the 78-year-old said he believed he would have electricity by Saturday.

BBC: Northern Ireland

This new age brought an explosion of commerce, with spectacular new industries and products refineries, electricity, steel, automobiles, airplanes, telephones, etc.

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It has stabilised the economy, built a million houses, brought water and electricity to many who lacked it before, and provided a safety-net for many poor families through old-age pensions.

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