More than 130 homes in a Suffolk town are currently without power after an unexpected fault.

Homes in Needham Market, Creeting St Mary, Creeting St Peter, Creet St Mary, Darmsden, Barking and Baylham are without power due to an overhead line electricity fault.

Two postcodes were affected by the power cut including IP6 8 and IP6 9.

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The issue was first reported to UK Power Networks at about 11.50am on Tuesday.

UK Power Networks says over 130 customers have been affected and at least eight customer calls have been received. 

A spokesman said that engineers are currently on the way to fix the issue.