Dozens of residents living across Woodston, Fletton and Hampton have reported a power cut this afternoon around 3.30pm, although some households got their power supply back within five minutes.

The UK Power Network has apologies for the disruption caused to eight Peterborough postcodes including PE2, PE3 and PE7 and said they are looking into the incident as this outage was not planned.

In an update to affected residents, the power network said: “We're sorry for any disruption this may have caused you.

“As this was an unexpected power cut, we didn't know it was going to happen, so we were unable to give you advanced notice. We estimate your power will be back on August 16 between 6pm and 7pm.

“We may be able to get some customers on sooner. The timeframe may change and be extended depending on our investigations and the work involved to resolve the issue.”