Downed power cable leaves 3500 homes without electricity in Moray

Up to 3500 homes were left without power in Elgin and Lossiemouth on Monday morning.

The outage, which began at around 9.10am, was caused by a downed power cable and a technical fault on the line.

A spokesman for operators SSE said the faults were not connected. Power was restored to the vast majority of homes by 11.50am.

Twenty-one homes remained without power while engineers carried out final repairs to the line.

SSE added: “There are two faults ongoing, a power cable down and a technical fault. It is a coincidence they have happened at the same time.

“We had 3500 people off supply, which had been reduced to around 2000 by 11.30am."