Over 400 residents in Berkshire were left without power for nearly seven hours due to a fault in the underground network. Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) reported that the power outage affected 39 postcodes in Newbury at 13:08 BST on Thursday.
Engineers are currently on the scene working to restore power by 21:00. SSEN stated that the outage was caused by a common type of fault that they have experience dealing with.
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