“We apologise to those customers impacted, and we understand how difficult is to be without power.

“Additional teams are on duty and our engineers are working hard to restore power.”

In Suffolk, the villages north of Ipswich included Westerfield, Witnesham and Coddenham.

Further north in Suffolk, more than 240 homes in Debenham and surrounding villages, and 86 homes along the A140 between Stonham Aspal and Wetheringsett have been affected.

In Norfolk, 557 homes have been without power in Reepham and Cawston, and a further 417 in villages between Aylsham and Coltishall.

To the west of the county, engineers were working to restore power to 368 homes between Welney and Upwell on the Cambridgeshire border.

Updates on power cuts and the estimated time power was expected to be restored can be found here on the UK Power Networks website, external