A fire to an electricity pole on the Foxdale Road meant electricity supplies to areas of Foxdale, St John’s and St Mark’s had to be temporarily cut this evening.

Manx Utilities explained tonight’s outage, saying: ’Our team has had to interrupt electricity supplies from St John’s through to Foxdale up to St Marks’s due to a fire at an overhead line pole in Foxdale.’

A statement from the fire service confirmed they were also at the incident. It said: ’Crews are currently in attendance at an electricity pole fire on the Foxdale Road.

’Due to the weakened structural integrity of the pole the road has been closed between Eairy Dam and the MSPCA in order for us to deal with it safely.’