Central Oxford hit by power cut

CENTRAL and East Oxford was hit by a powercut last night.

Properties in the OX1 and OX4 areas of the city were without power for around two hours.

Southern Electric restored the power at around 11.30pm.

Comments(15)

virgotae73 says...
8:55am Wed 7 Nov 12

I live on the Cowley Road and I know nothing of this.

King Joke says...
8:58am Wed 7 Nov 12

The lights flickered a bit in South Oxford as well. I wondered what was going on.

Sandy Wimpole-Smythe says...
9:03am Wed 7 Nov 12

'Breaking News' - hardly !!

Dilligaf2010 says...
11:05am Wed 7 Nov 12

I'm in OX1 and my power was off for about 15 minutes, certainly not 2 hours

Andrew:Oxford says...
11:41am Wed 7 Nov 12

Dilligaf2010 wrote:
I'm in OX1 and my power was off for about 15 minutes, certainly not 2 hours
OX1 area is huge though, it includes Kennington.

Dilligaf2010 says...
11:54am Wed 7 Nov 12

Andrew:Oxford wrote:
Dilligaf2010 wrote:
I'm in OX1 and my power was off for about 15 minutes, certainly not 2 hours
OX1 area is huge though, it includes Kennington.
Fair point

xjohnx says...
1:22pm Wed 7 Nov 12

Nothing compared to what will happen in our childrens time, now that we are not building sufficient new power stations.

King Joke says...
1:33pm Wed 7 Nov 12

Why should we build more power stations when we can get all our gas from that nice Mr Putin?

redstone says...
1:58pm Wed 7 Nov 12

Thought the city end of Abingdon Road looked a bit gloomy as I left Oxford last night.....

Dilligaf2010 says...
2:19pm Wed 7 Nov 12

redstone wrote:
Thought the city end of Abingdon Road looked a bit gloomy as I left Oxford last night.....
It always looks like that

King Joke says...
2:37pm Wed 7 Nov 12

It's the trolls living under the bridge.

Darkforbid says...
5:00pm Wed 7 Nov 12

Or,, or it was a bunch of eco-green-terrorists
,.. attacking the heart of our power structure

cuckoo says...
8:44pm Wed 7 Nov 12

Interesting that the OM didn't report on the power cut that occured at a major site in Headington early on tuesday morning!

Darkforbid says...
8:53pm Wed 7 Nov 12

Wow.. How did it hit candle sales?

cuckoo says...
9:01pm Wed 7 Nov 12

Darkforbid wrote:
Wow.. How did it hit candle sales?
reckon many might be happy that 'emergency generators' work!!

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