A BRIEF power cut has hit across Gwent – right on Hallowe’en, giving a number of people a good old fright.

Reports have come in from social media users that the power cut – which lasted for just a few seconds – hit in Newport, Risca, Pontypool, Chepstow, Monmouth, Ystrad Mynach and as far afield as Bristol, Barry, Pontypridd, Port Talbot and Llanelli.

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Western Power Distribution hasn’t registered the power cut on their power outage map – most likely due to how quickly the power returned. However, their official Twitter page responded to a query saying that they didn’t know what caused the issue, but engineers have restored power.