Halifax (bank) November 2009, HBOS was hit by a power failure which affected all branches, cash machines and online banking. The bank said that the power failure occurred at an IT centre in Copley, West Yorkshire which caused several problems for Halifax's banking system. Halifax's online banking system did not recover from the power failure for several hours. On Boxing Day 2000, Halifax started a successful marketing campaign, which was continued after the creations of HBOS. Halifax have also created adverts that have featured popular cartoon characters like The Flintstones, Top Cat, Scooby-Doo, The Wizard of Oz and Thunderbirds (TV series). Halifax
Carla Brown UK Cyber Girl of the Week. Throughout her career she has appeared on television in music videos, adverts and programmes such as on Men & Motors and Playboy TV. In 2008 and 2009 she appeared on Nuts TV as one of the Nuts TV fitness foxes. Carla has appeared in music videos for comedy act Kunt and the Gang. Brown graduated with a Masters in Politics and International Relations from the University of Warwick. Her favourite movies are said to be "Shawshank Redemption" and "Withnail & I", she has a real phobia of spiders, she practises judo and aikido, she