Moray power outage centred on areas around Rothes, Craigellachie and Aberlour leaves almost 350 homes without electricity, according to Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN)

Hundreds of homes and businesses in the Rothes, Craigellachie and Aberlour area were without power on Wednesday morning after a fault on the electric grid.

Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN), which maintains the grid in the area, said that almost 350 homes were hit by the power cut shortly after 6am.

At the time of writing engineers were reported to be on the scene of the fault, and SSEN said it provisionally hoped to restore power by 9.30am - although this could be subject to change.

A spokesperson for SSEN said: "We're aware of a power cut affecting 347 homes.

"This unplanned fault is affecting the local area, and it's likely several streets in the area are affected by the same power cut.

"[Engineers] will get straight to work on investigating the fault and attempt to restore your power."

They continued: "The cause of this power cut is a fault on our overhead network. This is the most common type of fault we see, and our teams are very experienced in dealing with these issues.

"In most cases, our engineers are able to get your power back on by simply replacing a fuse at the local substation, however, if the fault is severe, this may take us longer to fix.

"If this does happen we will let you know."

For updates on the outage visit SSEN's Powertrack outage map at https://powertrack.ssen.co.uk/powertrack#RE4193.

Alternatively call SSEN on 105 and quote reference number 'RE4193'.