HOMES have been left without power this morning following an outage in Reading and surrounding areas.

Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) hope to have power returned to the 23 postcodes in Reading by 10.30am but say in most cases, it will be restored sooner.

Postcodes affected include RG7, RG31 and RG4.

The power cut was reported at about 7.30am.

Reading Chronicle:

SSE 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. If you need more information, please call us on 105"

Affected postcodes 

  • RG7 1XN
  • RG7 1XP
  • RG7 1XR 
  • RG7 1XS
  • RG7 1XT
  • RG30 4PT
  • RG30 4PU
  • RG31 4DR
  • RG31 4DU
  • RG31 4EE
  • RG31 4E 
  • RG31 4EH
  • RG31 4EJ
  • RG31 4EL
  • RG31 4EN
  • RG31 4ER
  • RG31 4QZ
  • RG31 4SQ
  • RG4 7TP
  • RG4 7TR
  • RG4 7TS
  • RG4 7TT

Updates to follow.