Hundreds of households near the Kent coast continue to face water supply outages leaving some people “desperately in need”.

South East Water has apologised to customers in Whitstable and neighbouring Seasalter for the problems, which started yesterday morning. Originally, the company said 3,000 homes were affected. This ...

Hundreds more homes are without water after the supply to 7,000 households was cut off on the hottest day of the year.