A PUB is throwing its New Year’s Eve party tomorrow after the real one was ruined by an eight-hour power cut.

Vicky and Chris Sagar, from the Fox and Hounds pub, Shafton, said the power cut cost them thousands of pounds in takings.

Houses across Shafton and along Pontefract Road as far as the Dards pub at Cudworth saw in the New Year in darkness after power went off at 10pm and didn't come back on until 6.30am the following day.

Then hours later it went off for a second time, this time for an hour or so. David and Joy Glover, from the Dards, want compensation from the supplier as they claim they lost more than £6,000 in takings.

Vicky said: “It emptied the pub. We couldn't serve in darkness because it is against health and safety.

“We were gutted. It was packed, everybody was in party mode and then the power went off.

“To top it off people that felt sorry for us came back in on New Year's Day. We were having a brilliant afternoon and it went off again.”

A spokesman for YEDL said: “We had a supply interruption at our sub station affecting 413 customers.

“Supply was restored via a generator, we then worked continuously all day during January 1 to repair the problem.

“It was necessary to interrupt supplies for an hour on New Year’s Day to complete our permanent repair. We would like to apologise to all customers for any inconvenience the supply interruption caused.”