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Water main burst leaves hundreds without supply

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Residents have been told repairs will take four to five hours

Hundreds of households are without water or on low pressure, and a local primary and pre-school have closed after a water main burst.

Modbury Primary and Pre-school, which have about 200 pupils, are closed after the burst was reported at about 11:00 BST.

South West Water said some customers in the south Devon town, which has about 1,500 inhabitants, "may experience lower water pressure than usual or a loss of supply while we undertake emergency repairs".

Repairs would take four to five hours, it added.

News imageThe image is a map centred on Modbury, Devon, showing a shaded area outlined in black. Inside the shaded area are two teal location-pin markers: one near the centre of Modbury and another towards the northern part of the outlined zone.
Most of Modbury is affected by the outage according to South West Water

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