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
Howard Clifton Brown Brown was elected to the House of Commons for Newbury at an unopposed by-election on 6 June 1922. However, in the following year's general election he lost the seat by just 41 votes to his Liberal opponent, Innes Harold Stranger. At the 1924 general election he was re-elected as Newbury's MP, which he remained until stepping down at the 1945 general election. He married, in 1903, Mary Eirene Hodges, daughter of Sir Henry Hodges, and had three daughters. Howard Clifton Brown Brigadier-General Howard Clifton Brown (3 April 1868 – 11 September 1946) was a British army officer and Conservative Party