{"id":690892,"date":"2026-01-12T10:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T10:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/690892\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T10:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T10:52:12","slug":"south-east-water-major-incident-declared-as-thousands-across-kent-and-sussex-without-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/690892\/","title":{"rendered":"South East Water: Major incident declared as thousands across Kent and Sussex without water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Schools closed due to lack of waterpublished at 07:42 GMT<\/p>\n<p>07:42 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A number of schools in Kent and Sussex have announced they will be closed for the day due to having no water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In East Sussex, the schools and preschools closed include Ashurst Wood Primary, Ashurst Wood Community preschool, Imberhorne both, Blackwell and Escots, Brambletye School, Tiny Tigers, Jack and Jill preschool, Little Gemz Nursery, Sackville, The Meads, Paddington Pre-school, St Peter&#8217;s Primary and Jaybees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Kent, the schools that have announced they will shut for the day include Lower Street in Leeds, Ulcombe C of E Primary School and Speldhurst in Tunbridge Wells.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And in East Grinstead, the libraries at King Centre and Chequer Mead are also closed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Find out if your school is affected in <a href=\"https:\/\/kentclosures.co.uk\/\" class=\"ssrcss-f0xzi3-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kent here, external<\/a>, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastsussex.gov.uk\/education-learning\/schools\/school-closures\" class=\"ssrcss-f0xzi3-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">East Sussex here, external<\/a> and in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westsussex.gov.uk\/education-children-and-families\/schools-and-colleges\/school-closures\/\" class=\"ssrcss-f0xzi3-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Sussex here , external<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A queue of cars at the bottled water station in East Grinstead Rugby Club\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/904399b2-8d38-43d0-8c10-67edc79d8f7f.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"5443\" height=\"3628\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, EDDIE MITCHELL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Schools closed due to lack of waterpublished at 07:42 GMT 07:42 GMT A number of schools in Kent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-690892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115881754239003771","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}