Lights out as Old Christchurch Road is hit by power cut

AROUND 30 SSE customers in Old Christchurch Road, Bournemouth, were hit by a power cut today.

The power has been out since 6.20am, and around 20 buildings are still without electricity this evening.

A spokesperson said 10 customers were back on by 9.10am, and everyone else is expected to have the power back by around 8.30pm tonight.

The spokesperson added: "Our engineers have been working on an underground cable fault."

Comments(3)

Baywolf says...
9:28am Sun 17 Mar 13

Another power cut. What is the electric company doing more to the point what are they not telling customers?

miniminime says...
12:46pm Sun 17 Mar 13

And this is news! Next time I have a power cut will the echo be reporting it!?

Lord Spring says...
7:34am Mon 18 Mar 13

So EDF EON and other suppliers customers did not lose power only SSE ones

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