Homes and businesses were left without electricity after a sudden outage this morning.

Homes and businesses were hit by two power cuts in the High Wycombe area.

The first outage happened in Cressex at about 7.30am today (December 15), affecting some HP12 postcodes.

The postcodes affected are HP12 4NP, HP12 4NR, HP12 4NX, HP12 4NY and HP12 4NZ.

An estimated 32 customers have been affected, the provider SSE said.

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The second outage was reported in Walter’s Ash shortly after 8am, leaving six customers without electricity.

The affected postcodes are HP14 4UN and HP14 4UP.

SSE said: “We’re sorry for the loss of supply. We currently have a fault affecting the areas listed.”

Power is expected to be restored in both locations at 12 noon, SSE estimated.