A significant power cut has left hundreds of Cheltenham homes in the dark this evening.

National Grid first reported the outage just after 6pm.

At the time of writing, 248 properties are out of power. The outage has happened near Cheltenham General Hospital, although it's understood the hospital is not affected.

Power is not expected to be restored until midnight on Friday.

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We are aware of this power cut outage which was raised at 6:05pm this evening and our engineers are working to get the power returned as quickly as possible. We are sorry for any inconvenience this is caus

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