Abingdon hit by power cut

11:07am Tuesday 29th January 2013 in News

THREE-HUNDRED businesses and homes have lost power in Abingdon this morning after a workmen hit an underground cable in the Bury Street Precinct.

Peter Wiblin, from Abingdon News Plus, said the outage had hit town centre shops at about 11am.

A Southern Electric spokesman said the power cut had been caused by a workmen hitting a cable.

He said: "Engineers are on site at the moment working to fix the problem."

It was not known yet when power would be restored.

Mr Wiblin said: "All the shops in the precinct and along the High Street have lost power.

"All the shopkeepers are now stood outside their shops."

 

Comments(4)

Feelingsmatter says...
11:09am Tue 29 Jan 13

That was quick OM.

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Notopolotics says...
12:07pm Tue 29 Jan 13

Its back up as of 11:58AM

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Grunden Skip says...
2:07pm Tue 29 Jan 13

R.E. two stories above. I know that they are only doing their highly paid jobs, but how can defence barristers morally even contemplate defending and cross examining people in these circumstances when the truth is already out there.

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orangefoot says...
5:37pm Tue 29 Jan 13

Where was the BREAKING NEWS Report about the power coming back on?

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