Thousands of residents have been left without electricity after two separate power cuts. Engineers were scrambled to the ME5 area of Chatham to fix the faulty underground cable. UK Power Networks says it was alerted to the fault shortly after 4.30pm, in a message sent to residents. Meanwhile, they are also working to fix a separate fault in the ME9 area, which covers Newington and other surrounding villages. Residents have been warned it could take hours to restore electricity. UK Power Networks says more than 2,300 homes were originally impacted by the outage in the Chatham area, which has im…