Homes hit by outage

10:30AM, Monday 04 January 2021

Homes hit by outage

MORE than 2,250 homes in the Henley area were affected by a power cut on Boxing Day evening. 

The outage, which began at 7.37pm, was caused by a underground cable fault and affected homes in the town as well as Harpsden, Shiplake, Lower Shiplake and Rotherfield Greys.

Power was restored to all but about 500 buildings within a few minutes and the rest by 10.45pm. 

Scottish and Southern Electricity said it wanted to apologise to customers.

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