Hundreds of homes in Itchen Abbas were hit by a powercut.

The powercut which has affected 461 SSE customers in the area near Winchester, happened after a wire came down near Itchen Abbas.

To allow engineers to investigate the problem safely, SSE say they cut off the power.

It happened at 3.20pm on Monday and power was restored to 326 homes and businesses by 4.46pm, the final 135 homes had the power back by 6.30am this morning.

A spokesperson for SSE said: "We apologise for the inconvenience and we would like thank customers for their patience while we worked to get the power back on."