Power restored to hundreds of home left without electricity

Villages north of Dereham including Beetley, Gressenhall, Bawdesley and Swanton Morley, were hit with a power cut affecting 367 properties. 

A map showing the area affected by the outage (Image: UK Power Networks) UK Power Networks became aware of the issue, caused by “a high voltage overhead electricity line fault”, at 1.40pm on Saturday, December 7, and engineers investigated the outage. 

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A map showing the area affected by the outage (Image: UK Power Networks) To the south west of Dereham, a power outage impacted 1132 properties in villages which included Saham Toney, Shipdham and Holme Hale. 

UK Power Networks became aware of the issue at 2.20pm with engineers discovering a section of overhead cables had come down in the storm. The cables had to be re-erected.

A yellow weather warning for strong winds is currently in force until 6pm today, as Storm Darragh batters the county with gale-force gusts of up to 60mph.