POWER supply bosses have explained why more than 800 York homes and businesses lost their electricity supplies last night.
Street lights, traffic lights, houses, flats pubs, shops and other businesses were all hit by the power cut in the York Barbican area just ouside the Bar Walls.
Streets such as Barbican Road and parts of Cemetery Road and Heslington Road were left in total darkness, with motorists carefully negotiating junctions such as the Cemetery Road/Heslington Road/Kent Street/Barbican Road crossroads where the traffic lights were knocked out.
Shops such as the Coop store near the Barbican and pubs such as the Victoria Hotel on the junction of Cemetery Road and Heslington Road were affected.
Supplier Northern Powergrid said today that the power cut, which affected 836 properties in the YO10 and YO31 area, was caused by an underground cable fault.
A spokesman said it started at 9.35pm and supplies were restored to all properties at 10.33pm.
However, the traffic lights at the Cemetery Road junction remained out of action this morning.
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