Nineteen homes in Rochester spent nine hours without power today.

People living in Warren Wood Road woke up to discover the outage, which was reported to UK Power Networks at 6am.

A spokesman said the disruption was caused by an underground cable fault.

Engineers visited the scene and restored power at just after 3:30pm.

A number of workers spent the afternoon digging down to reach the cable in the garden of pensioners Paulette, 70 and Brian Cox, 73.

Mrs Cox said it was the second power cut within a matter of days. On Thursday evening supplies were down from 4pm to 11pm.