Schools serve hot meals after months of sandwiches
Getty ImagesTwo schools are to resume serving hot meals to students after five months of power problems.
King Edwin Primary School and Barndale-By-The-Sea specialist school in Amble, Northumberland, both opened in October but a lack of a working kitchen meant they were unable to serve hot food.
Pupils were instead offered sandwiches or reheated pizza, which Labour politicians said fell short of "expected standards".
Conservative-led Northumberland County Council said the issue was caused by power supply issues but the problem had now been fixed.
"Due to unforeseen issues, a number of which were outside our control, with the existing electrical meter to the kitchen block and challenges with the previous energy supplier, there were delays getting power to the block," a spokesperson said.
"However, all issues are now resolved."
Hot meals are now being cooked for King Edwin Primary pupils and those at Barndale-by-the-Sea will receive hot food from Monday, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.
Northumberland Labour leader Scott Dickinson previously said staff had been let down due to a lack of necessary facilities.
Conservative councillor Guy Renner-Thompson said the situation was "clearly not acceptable".
"I have been banging heads together with the building department to get it sorted since it was raised with me by the Barndale head teacher in February," he said.