A POWER cut is affecting the Towyn and Kinmel Bay areas this afternoon (Sunday, October 13). 

Scottish Power has said the outage is affecting the LL18 and LL22 postcode areas. 

A spokesperson said: "We had no advance warning of this and first became aware of it at 2.25pm.

"Our control centre will attempt to restore your electricity supply remotely, and we will also send our next available engineers to the area to find and fix the fault as quickly and as safely as possible. We expect the power to be restored by 4.30pm.

"The latest updates can be found on our website www.s p energy networks.co.uk. We apologise for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience."

Postcodes affected: LL181AA, LL185HY, LL185JA, LL185JZ, LL185NA, LL198RH, LL227PW, LL229EL, LL229EN, LL229EP, LL229ER, LL229ES, LL229ET, LL229EU, LL229HB, LL229HD, LL229HE, LL229HF, LL229HH, LL229HL, LL229HN, LL229HP, LL229HQ, LL229HT, LL229HY, LL229JA, LL229LA, LL229LB, LL229LD, LL229LE, LL229LF, LL229LH, LL229LL, LL229LP, LL229LR, LL229LS, LL229LY, LL229NA, LL229NF, LL229NL, LL229NN, LL229NQ, LL229NW, LL229PD, LL229PH, LL339LD