Power cut hits Biggleswade
Published Date:
06 October 2008
Thousands of homes and businesses affected this morning
Central Biggleswade was hit by an extensive power cut for half an hour this morning (Monday).
Electricity supplies were cut to thousands of homes and town centre businesses - including the offices of the Biggleswade Chronicle - at 9.51am.
Traffic lights were put out of action too.
A spokesman for EDF Energy said: "Power was interrupted to several thousand customers in Biggleswade at 9.51am today following a fault affecting our high voltage electricity network.
"EDF Energy Networks engineers worked as swiftly and safely as possible to restore supplies.
"The final 490 customers were reconnected to the electricity network, within approximately 30 minutes of the fault, at 10.24am.
"We do understand how much inconvenience any interruption to power can cause and apologise to all those affected."
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Last Updated:
06 October 2008 11:03 AM
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