AREAS of Ryde have been left without power this afternoon (Wednesday) after a fault was discovered by engineers.

Scottish and Southern Electricity said it was working to fix an outage affecting homes in the PO33 2BA post code in Ryde that occured at 3.33pm.

A County Press reader said Tesco Extra on Brading Road is also without power this afternoon.

A spokesperson for SSE said: "We’re sorry for the loss of supply. We currently have a fault affecting the PO33 2BA area.

"Our engineers are on site working hard to get the power back on as quickly as they can."