POWER has been returned to homes and businesses in Radcliffe after an outage this morning.

Electricity North West said they had removed supply to about 206 properties in the M26 postcode area this morning while repairs were carried out on the network.

Engineers were working to fix the problem this morning.

Power was restored by about 9.45am.

Electricity North West tweeted at 10am: "Our engineers have now repaired the fault on our network meaning all customers affected are back on! Thank you for your patience."