40 homes in the Lake District have currently been without power in the Lake District.

The properties affected are in Windermere with the outage first reported at 10:45am.

The postcodes involved LA23 2JX, LA23 2JD, LA23 2JB, LA23 2JF, LA23 2JG, LA23 2JZ.

Electricity North West are currently on site which, according to the website map, is in South Craig.

On its website, the power network operator said: "This power cut has been caused by an unexpected incident with the underground cable that provides electricity to your home or business.

"We didn't know before your electricity went off that this was going to happen but now we know, rest assured we will get your power back on safely and as quickly as possible.

"Please note that all our timescales are estimated based on previous experience and may change if new information becomes available while our engineers are fixing the issue.

"With underground power cuts, we may need to dig to repair the cable and this can sometime extend the length of time you are without power."

The expected duration of the power cut is estimated to be until around 22:45 tonight.