Saturday 14:10. At time of writing, Southeast Water report they do not know the cause of the current water outage which seems to be affecting mainly the area around The Street and Long Reach, Brightling. I am assured their teams are working hard to investigate. There are plans to provide bottled water but the location is yet to be confirmed (I have requested this should be the village hall car park).

You can keep abreast of updates by logging on to aqualerter.southeastwater.co.uk. Submit your postcode in the box provided. This opens a map indicating the outage area. Click on the pinpointed warning symbol and scroll down the page for details and updates. Hopefully, details of where to collect water will also be notified on this page.

On that same page you can submit your mobile number for text updates and also register for priority services.