Power cut hits more than 650 Aberdeen homes

Hundreds of homes were hit by a power cut in Aberdeen earlier tonight.

The outage, which first occurred at about 10pm, affected 655 customers in the central area of the city.

SSE engineers were called to the area and managed to get power restored at about 10.45pm, by switching networks.

A spokeswoman for the firm said: “We would like to thank customers for their patience and apologise for any inconvenience caused.”