PEOPLE in Duntocher and Parkhall are currently without mains electricity after a power cut in the area.

SP Energy Networks confirm they had no advance warning of the outage and were made aware at 11.46am this morning.

The current outage is affecting a number of homes in the G12, G81, and G82 postcodes.

Postcodes affected

G121AA, G81, G811AA, G813NA, G813NE, G813NF, G813NL, G813PE, G813PF, G813PG, G813PL, G813PP, G813PQ, G813PS, G813PT, G813PU, G813PX, G813PY, G813PZ, G813QA, G813QB, G813QD, G813QE, G813QF, G813QW, G813RJ, G813RS, G813RU, G813RX, G813RZ, G813SB, G813SD, G813SE, G813ST, G814SH, G814SP, G814SW, G816AR, G816AT, G816BF, G816BX, G816BY, G816BZ, G816DA, G816DB, G816DD, G816DE, G816DF, G816DG, G816DP, G816DS, G816DU, G816DX, G816DY, G816DZ, G816EA, G816EB, G816ED, G816EE, G816EF, G816EH, G816EN, G816EP, G816ES, G816EU, G816HD, G816HP, G816HR, G816HS, G816HT, G816HW, G816HY, G816JA, G816JD, G816JH, G816JJ, G816JL, G816JN, G816JP, G816JR, G816JS, G816JT, G816JU, G816JW, G816JZ, G816LB, G816LD, G816LE, G816LF, G816LG

The company says power is expected to be restored by 2pm today (September 15).

They said: "Our control centre will attempt to restore your electricity supply remotely, and we will also send our next available engineers to the area to find and fix the fault as quickly and as safely as possible.

"We apologise for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience."

A source told the Post that a large bang was heard before the electrical fault was heard from the area of the Parkhall sub station.

Alarms have been heard going off in certain areas of Duntocher.

For more information and updates visit SP Energy Networks website.