MORE than 2,000 people have lost power in the Romsey area.

A spokeswoman for Scottish and Southern Electricity said 2,185 customers in Braishfield, Bramshaw, East Wellow, Lockerley, Sherfield English, West Wellow, Wellow and the surrounding Romsey area are affected.

She added the power outage was due to a fault on their main network and engineers have been at the scene since 4.15pm; all power supplies should be back on by 5.45pm.