Thames Water has announced a hosepipe ban on millions of its customers including those in Swindon and some areas of Wiltshire.

The temporary ban is to start for all Swindon residents from midnight on Tuesday, July 22 and all other areas with a SN postcode.

This will include Chippenham, Devizes, Calne, Melksham, Marlborough, Corsham, and Malmesbury.

Customers with the OX, GL, RG4, RG8 and RG9 postcodes are also affected.

No date has been given for an end to the ban at this stage.

Those in the affected areas are asked not to use hosepipes, including for cleaning cars, watering gardens or allotments, filling paddling pools and swimming pools or cleaning windows.

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