Dozens of homes in an Isle of Wight village are without electricity following a power cut.

A total of 301 properties in and around Godshill have been hit by the outage.

Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) said 26 postcode areas are affected.

The cause of the power cut is a fault on an overhead network.


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The outage was first reported at around 7.30pm

An SSEN spokesperson said: "This unplanned fault is affecting a large area, and it's likely several streets in the area are affected by the same power cut.

"Our engineers are in the local area and working hard to get power restored as soon as possible.

SSEN said it hopes have power restored by 10pm, although this is subject to change.

Update

Power has been restored.