Some Warwick homes will be without electricity until 6pm after a power cut at midday today (March 16).

National Grid first reported the outage at 12.18pm with around 1,000 homes being impacted.

Engineers had promised the power would be restored by 2pm, but while some homes have electricity again, many will be kept waiting until this evening.

National Grid said: "We are aware of this power cut incident which was raised at 12:18pm this afternoon and our engineers are working to get the power returned as quickly as possible.

"We are sorry for any inconvenience this is causing you."

The update said there is a fault on "our high voltage network in your area" which "we are working hard to resolve".