A NUMBER of homes across St Helens have been hit by a power cut.

The outage happened this evening (Saturday), shortly after 6pm.

Residents in Rainford are among those affected.

In a statement SP Energy Networks said:

“There is a power cut affecting the WA11 postcode area of St Helens.

“We had no advance warning of this and first became aware of it at 6.01pm.

“Our control centre will attempt to restore your electricity supply remotely, and we will also send our next available engineers to the area to find and fix the fault as quickly and as safely as possible.

“We expect the power to be restored by 8.15pm.

“The latest updates can be found on our website www.spenergynetworks.co.uk. We apologise for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.”

 

Postcodes affected:

 

WA117JT, WA117JU, WA117JX, WA117JY, WA117JZ, WA117LA, WA117LB, WA117LD, WA117LE, WA117LF, WA117LH, WA117LJ, WA117LL, WA117LQ, WA117TF, WA117TL, WA118PF, WA118PG, WA118PJ, WA118PL