Power cut knocks out electricity to dozens of properties south of Inverness, Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) announces

A FAULT sparked a power outage at dozens of homes to the south of Inverness this morning (Monday).

Scottish and Southern Electricty Networks (SSEN) confirmed the outage shortly after 10.40am.

It is known to have affected properties in 11 separate postcodes, most of which are in IV3 and are centred around the Dochgarroch area.

SSEN said its engineers were on site making repairs and added that they hoped to restore power by 2pm.

"We’re sorry for the loss of supply," said a spokesman. "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 or send us a message on Facebook or Twitter (@ssencommunity) and quote reference 'GC5629'."

For more details you can also visit SSEN's Powertrack web page.

The postcodes which are known to be affected are:

• IV1 2DL
• IV2 6DN
• IV2 6EL
• IV3 5LE
• IV3 8GY
• IV3 8JG
• IV3 8JP
• IV3 8JX
• IV3 8JY
• IV3 8JZ
• IV3 8LA

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