A FREAK power cut left homes in Bampton without electricity all last night.
Fire crews went to Mercury Close after a resident heard an explosion behind his home.
An electricity transformer in a sub station had blown leaving a hole in the ground. A Southern Electric engineer made the area safe and restored electricity to 90 per cent of homes within 45 minutes.
But a few homes in the Mercury Close area and some outlying farms did not get their power back until 7am today.
A spokesman for Southern Electric said engineers worked all night to repair the fault which was caused by a cable leading into a box in the sub station.
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