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A spate of power cuts across North Wales and recent bad weather are probably "coincidental", energy bosses say.

Yesterday homes and businesses in five towns were hit with outages as Scottish Power engineers worked to restore power.

Wrexham was worst affected with up to a few hundred homes off, after areas of the town were affected in the morning at about 10.30am.

Cuts in parts of Caernarfon , Mold , Denbigh and St Asaph soon followed, with power restored to all properties by 2.30pm. The cause was given as "overhead network faults".

It follows power outages across the region in recent weeks.

Engineers were sent to the scene of a power cut in Abergele and Pensarn last Thursday, with hundreds left in the dark following an overhead network fault.

Around 600 properties had no electricity for nearly an hour, with residents reporting an "explosion" before the power went out.

Another outage in Flintshire saw homes without electricity supply after residents reported seeing smoke hearing a loud bang in the Flint and Oakenholt area of Connah's Quay on July 23.

The day before properties in Wrexham experienced another power cut, with shops on Regent Street in Wrexham and on the Island Green shopping park forced to close for around an hour due to the lack of electricity - caused by a fault in the network.

North Wales has been hit by thunderstorms and rain in recent weeks, including a freak hail storm that pounded houses and cars.

But Scottish Power chiefs say the power cuts and weather are not connected and the faults were for a variety of reasons.

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A spokesman for the power company said: "The power cuts aren't weather related at all.

"They're all a result of standard overhead network faults."

"This can happen for various reasons.

A branch could have hit the network, or a fuse could have blown but it doesn't appear to be anything out of the ordinary.

"It looks as though it is just a coincidence that we've had a series of faults.

"There is nothing to support the power cuts are weather related."

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