Up to 30 homes have been left without power on Portland.

According to Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks, a power cut struck customers in the DT5 area at 8.46am this morning.

A spokesman for SSEN said: “I can confirm that our engineers are currently on site and will do everything they can to restore supplies to the 30 affected properties as safely and as quickly as possible; we aim to have all supplies restored by 12pm.

“We would like to apologise to our customers affected by this morning’s power cut and assure them that our engineers are doing everything they can to get their power back on as safely and as quickly as possible.”