Taps dry in 58,000 Hampshire homes due to Southern Water fault

Outage comes as customers hear they will face the highest bill increases in England and Wales

Tens of thousands of homes in Hampshire are without water because of a technical fault at a Southern Water supply works.

About 58,000 homes in Southampton, Romsey, Eastleigh, Totton and parts of the New Forest have outages after a problem at the Testwood water supply works prevented water from leaving the site.