A power outage hit 4,246 households and forced shops to close in Harrogate this morning.
The outage affected homes around Otley Road and Leeds Road, as well as businesses in the Oatlands and Harlow Hill areas.
While Northern Powergrid said it only lasted for 10 minutes, customers reported problems for around half an hour from 10am onwards.
Both M&S Food and the Co-op in the Oatlands area had to ask customers to leave when their lights, fridges and automatic doors stopped working. Other shops in the area also closed during the outage.
Traffic lights and pedestrian crossings were also reported to have been affected by the power cut.
A spokesperson for Northern Powergrid said:
“Everything is completely back on now. We don’t know what caused it, but we have transferred customers onto a healthier part of the network and our engineers are investigating.”
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