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Boil water alert as 24,000 homes in Tunbridge Wells area lose supply again

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Hysterectomy rescheduled due to water problemspublished at 12:06 GMT

We have heard from one reader who was due to have a total hysterectomy at Nuffield Health’s private hospital in Tunbridge Wells yesterday.

However, she said she received a call cancelling the appointment due to the water supply failure.

“I am a single mum to an autistic teen, and we ourselves have been without water since Saturday evening with no sign of it returning yet,” she said.

“The operation has been rescheduled for 17 December, so I now have another 15 days of pre-op anxiety to look forward to.”

A Nuffield Health spokesperson said: “As a precaution, we have rescheduled non-urgent procedures to conserve back-up water reserves for essential care only.”

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