Scores of homes in Suffolk and Essex remain without power this morning after huge thunderstorms struck the region last night.

Ipswich Star: Lightning has also struck Harwich this evening Picture: ALEX DUKESLightning has also struck Harwich this evening Picture: ALEX DUKES (Image: Archant)

UK Power Networks reported last night that the power cuts were caused by faults in high voltage overhead and underground electricity wires.

Although most of the cuts were short-lived, with power returned fairly quickly, dozens of homes, including 71 homes affected in the IP12 postcode and 14 in the IP19 postcode, remain without electricity today.

-WATCH: Your videos as storms hit SuffolkLast night, homes in Ipswich, Kesgrave, Holbrook, Woolpit, Bildeston, Elmswell, Melton Woodbridge, Coddenham and Westerfield suffered cuts to their power.

The Met Office had issued a yellow weather warning for thunderstorms from 3pm yesterday following a heatwave which saw the region experience some of its highest temperatures ever.

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