A school has had to close after a nearby village was hit by a burst water main this morning.

Staff at the Five Acre Wood School, in Boughton Lane, Loose, arrived to find no running water and was forced to shut for the day.

South East Water’s Regional Network Manager Jenny Rhodes said: “We apologise to customers in the Loose area whose drinking water supply was interrupted today.

“It was caused by a technical problem with a pump and we hope to have it resolved and get water back to customers as quickly as possible.”

A report of a burst pipe was also made in Tovil at around 2.20am today and engineers are said to be at the scene working on it.

There were also several leaks reported to South East Water in the Boughton Lane area near residential properties.

South East Water expect the interruption to be fixed by 1.30pm.

The water shortage in Loose comes just days after 7,000 people in Lenham were left without any water supply due to multiple burst pipes across the underground network.

Severe weather and freezing temperatures hit Kent as the Beast from the East made it was into the county.

Rising temperatures over the weekend caused extensive thawing which then created the problems leaving thousands of homes without water and forcing schools to close.