Water station runs out of bottles during outage

The bottled water station had been set up at the Tesco in Henley-on-Thames

A pop-up station providing bottled water to people affected by a water leak has been forced to temporarily close after running out of bottles.

Thames Water said the incident was affecting water supply in the postcode areas of RG4 and RG9 in Sonning Common and Henley-on-Thames.

The water company said they were working to fix the leak in wooded land off Reades Lane in Sonning Common, and have shut off parts of the network.

A bottled water station had been opened at the Tesco in Henley, but has temporarily closed whilst stocks are replenished.

Thames Water said it had begun re-routing water around it's network, and that some properties would notice their water supply beginning to return.

The utility company also said it was directly delivering bottled water to priority customers.

Most schools in the area, including Maiden Erlegh Chiltern Edge and Sonning Common Primary, had earlier been forced to close for the day following the leak.