ANGRY residents in a Portway mobile home site were left without electricity for 13 hours in the latest in a spate of power-cuts.

Residents who live in Hillcrest Park, near Portway, have suffered intermittent electricity failures over the past few years but the 13-hour blackout on March 23 was the longest yet.

Geoffrey Timms, 75, said the electricity had gone off at about 2pm and did not come back on until 3am the following morning.

"In the past 10 years we have had three or four incidents of this type, plus we have had other smaller ones," he said.

Mr Timms said his home relied almost entirely on electricity and he and his wife did not have a gas fire, so they had been without heating for the whole time.

"My neighbour is 95 and there's quite a few widows and people living on their own here - this just isn't on," he added.

He said he called electricity supplier Central Networks but had only been greeted by a recorded message apologising and saying when they hoped to have the power back on.

And Bromsgrove district councillor Jean Luck, whose ward includes the 96-home park, said residents had contacted her last week appealing for help with the situation.

She said: "I'm not saying it's often but it's happening too many times and they do not seem to have any kind of explanation.

"Thirteen hours in an all-electric mobile home in weather like this is an accident waiting to happen."

Central Networks spokeswoman Rebecca Middleton said their records showed cuts in March, December, September and April had all been caused by different problems.

"The latest one was a cable fault where the underground and overground network meet, affecting 336 customers," she said.

"Obviously, we apologise for every power cut our customers suffer but these cases are unrelated and it is just very unfortunate."