Charlie Flindt sends this snippet from the Hampshire Chronicle:
More than a thousand homes across the Alresford area were left without power on Monday. Reports of power outages across Beauworth, Bramdean, Brockwood, Cheriton and West Meon, came in at approximately 10.30am, after a cable was struck by workmen near Alresford. Duncan MacDonald, a spokesman for Southern Electric, said the problems began at ariound 9.30am, when road workers hit a cable on Appledown Lane. They were working on laying cables for the solar farm at Western Court Farm.