MORE than 300 homes in Keighley and Oakworth have been hit by a power cut this afternoon.

Northern Powergrid has confirmed that the outage hit a total of 330 properties, including premises in the BD21 and BD22 areas.

It estimates that the problem should be fixed by about 2.45pm today, adding that the fault was first reported to them shortly after 1pm.

A Northern Powergrid spokesman said: "We have restored power to some of the customers affected, and continue to work to restore supply to the remaining customers."