Storm Barney causes power cuts

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As the storm named Barney by the Met Offices moves away from North Shropshire there are reports of power cuts in the Hodnet area. Western Power Distribution are reporting 2 local outages – Power Cut Map.
At 8:47pm this evening (17 Nov. 15) Hodnet Fire Crew were called to attend an electricity cable fire in Marchamley (details). Western Power report that around 25 properties in SY4 5 & SY5 9 are without power. They do not expect power to be restored until 5.00am tomorrow morning.
In a separate incident 122 properties in SY4 5 & TF9 3 (Wollerton) lost power at approximately 9:12pm. Western Power hope that it will be restored by 1:00am.
Across Shropshire at 11:30pm there was a reported total of 68 incidents resulting in 6,365 premises without power.