AROUND 4,000 households in Upton suffered yet another power cut this morning, the fifth in just three weeks.

Residents in the Poole Road area reported losing power around 8am this morning. Electricity to at least some of the affected homes was restored an hour later and Southern Electric say they hope to have everyone back on the grid by 10.30am.

However, Lytchett Minster & Upton Town Council environment spokesman Cllr Ray Griffin, one of the affected residents, now says “enough is enough”

He explained: “These power cuts have been occurring far too regularly. What is frustrating is that, as far as I am aware, there has been no satisfactory explanation from the energy company.

“I would have expected that we might have been leafleted or had something through the post explaining the situation and apologising.”

Cllr Griffin told the Daily Echo the cuts have been affecting businesses across Upton. “Even the pedestrian crossing was out this morning making things pretty dangerous,” he added.

“OK, you expect accidents to happen, but not five or six in as many weeks. I think now is the time for an explanation.

“If it has been something different each time, perhaps something is wrong with the system as a whole.”

A Southern Electric spokesman confirmed around 4,000 customers suffered a power loss this morning, and that the fault was identified as part of the underground cable network at Cherry Hill Grove, Upton.

The spokesman told the Daily Echo: “Engineers are on site rerouting supplies to bring that number down and expect the majority, if not all, to have their power back by 10.30am this morning.

But the spokesman said engineers were unable, at this stage, to confirm whether or not this latest fault was related to previous blackouts.

“At the moment we are putting all our efforts into getting everyone back on but we will be carrying out fault finding to establish whether this is connected to previous interruptions,” said the Southern Electric spokesman.

“Although these faults have all been in the same area they certainly have not all been connected. We are very aware of the ongoing issues in Upton and we do apologise to our customers.”

“At the moment we are putting all our efforts into getting everyone back on but we will be carrying out fault finding to establish whether this is connected to previous interruptions.”