“Almost all” of the properties that have suffered a loss of water or low pressure in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, have seen their water restored, South East Water said yesterday.

Thousands of people were without water for six days in the royal town, and a health alert for families to boil water remains in place, while businesses are “counting the cost” of the crisis, said the BBC .

Strip-washes

The residents of the town, famed since the 1600s for its iron-rich spring, have a reputation for being “disgusted” thanks to the archetypal “Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells” – shorthand for an outraged, middle-class local signing a letter of complaint.

Although he’s lived in Tunbridge Wells for 20 years, The Spectator’s Robert Taylor has “never met anyone” who’s disgusted – “until this week”. But the

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