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Thames Water has announced a hosepipe ban will begin next Tuesday for customers in Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, most of Wiltshire and some parts of Berkshire. Loading audio...

The water company said the measure will be brought in after the Environment Agency placed its area into the "prolonged dry weather category".

The ban will begin on July 22 for customer in all OX postcodes, all GL postcodes, all SN postcodes as well as customers in RG4, RG8 and RG9 postcodes.

The Met Office has warned the UK is breaking heat and rainfall records increasingly frequently as the climate warms up.

The latest state of the UK climate report, published in the Royal Meteorological Society's International Journal of Climatology, shows the impact of human-caused global warming on the UK's w

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