HOMES in West Wight are without power this afternoon (Monday, July 18), following an unplanned outage.

62 postcodes (PO30 and PO41) between Yarmouth, Shalfleet and Shalcombe have been affected.

The outage was reported to Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) at 4.28pm.

SSE says an engineer is onsite and the energy company aims to restore power in the area by 7.30pm.