Update: Power has now been restored to affected properties

Over 600 Reading properties have been left without power.

According to Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks, a power outage was reported at 11:49am today (August 27, 2023).

An engineer is currently on site with the aim of getting power back by 3pm tonight.

The power supplier 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."

Reading Chronicle:

Affected postcodes include:

RG1

RG1 3DG

RG1 3DH

RG1 3DJ

RG1 3DP

RG1 3DQ

RG1 3ED

RG1 3EE

RG1 3EN

RG1 3ES

RG1 3EW

RG1 3GD

RG1 3GF

RG1 3GG

RG1 3GH

RG1 3GJ

RG1 3HS

RG1 3HT

RG1 3JD

RG1 3JH

RG1 8AB

RG1 8AE

RG1 8AF

RG1 8AG

RG1 8AQ

RG1 8BN

RG1 8DF

RG1 8FJ

RG2 0QN

RG4 8UA

RG30 1EJ