A power outage in Reading has left five postcodes and around 15 households without power this morning.

The power outage, which is expected to last until 5pm this evening was reported at 12:06am last night.

An engineer was sent to the area in Calcot Park and is attempting to fix the outage.

The postcodes that are affected include:

RG31 4QZ

RG31 7RJ

RG31 7RN

RG31 7RP

RG31 7RW

Scottish & Southern Electricity Networks said: “We’re sorry for the loss of supply. We currently have a fault affecting the areas listed. Our engineers are on site working hard to get the power back on as quickly as they can.

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