Intruders who broke into Kingsnorth Power Station switched off a turbine and cut nearly two per cent of the UK’s electricity supplies.

No one has yet claimed responsibility for the break-in, which is being investigated by Kent Police.

Power giant E.ON, which runs the site at Hoo, has denied a claim in a national newspaper some of its own staff or contracted employees may have been involved.

But a company spokesman has admitted that someone with specialist knowledge of working in a power station may have carried out the attack.

The intruders scaled a new electric fence which had not yet been activated and turned off one of the four turbines which supply London and the South East.

It was the most successful attack on the power station yet.

They even left a protest banner inside.

Full story in Monday's print edition of the Medway Messenger