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Power cut in the Wyke Regis area knocks out TV Mobile and Radio

There appears to be a significant power outage around the Wyke Regis area (06th Feb), which started at approximately 11:15 AM – which is affecting a significant number of properties in the DT4 area.

Major mobile network providers EE and Three are also reporting some loss of service on their website, likely to be caused by loss of power at the Wyke Regis transmission tower. Many people across the town have also been reporting loss of some TV and Radio services including Air 107.2

According to SSE’s website, there is a currently some form of outage in the following postal codes in the DT4 area;

DT4 9ES – DT4 9EZ – DT4 9GA – DT4 9JZ – DT4 9QN – DT4 9QS – DT4 9RB – DT4 9RD – DT4 9RF

Power is expected to be restored at 1630 GMT.

A spokesperson for SSE said that the fault was due to an underground cable which supplied the Wyke Regis sub station, engineers are on-site and are expecting to restore power at 1630 GMT.

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