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South East water chaos ‘totally unacceptable’ says Starmer as calls made for firm’s licence to be stripped

About 17,000 properties in Kent and Sussex are still being impacted by South East Water problems.
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    An elderly woman with a shopping cart picking up bottles of water from a water distribution centre

  2. A person in an orange high vis jacket walking with water bottles under his arm. There are hundreds of bottles behind him.

  3. Sir Kier Starmer in a suit.

  4. Mikey Cohen raises his hands after bowling for Kent, dressed in cricket whites and a black armband

  5. A police officer wearing a high-visibility jacket.

  6. The red brick building on Grace Hill in Folkestone that used to house the town's library. The front of the building is brightly lit and it is a clear day.

  7. A woman with blonde hair sat in a living room in a house surrounded by photographs of her family. She is wearing a bright pink T'shirt and her hands are on her lap.

  8. A yellow and black road sign directing drivers to a water collection point at East Grinstead Rugby Club.

  9. Head and shoulders shot of a young balding man smiling - Alexander Cashford

  10. A red and white HM Coastguard helicopter is in the air. A rescuer holding a rescue rope out of the side of the helicopter.

  11. A lorry stuck in mud.

  12. A man with grey hair and glasses

  13. A man with grey hair and stubble is wearing a green t shirt and his glasses are on top of his head. He is sitting in front of a white wall.

  14. A woman with long hair and a dark coloured top. She is looking into the camera in the selfie.

  15. Michelle Fraser is sitting in her living room, Nicci Parish is standing on Worthing seafront.

  16. South East Water workers in hi vis hand out bottled water to drivers at East Grinstead Rugby Club.

  17. Sign at East Surrey Hospital in Redhill.

  18. A middle-aged couple smile in fancy dress.

  19. Water pallets at a water station.

  20. A pallet of bottled water.

  21. Man with grey hair and black jacket standing outdoors

  22. Tony Vaughan stands with campaigners outside the library at a protest before he became an MP and holds a placard saying "save our library".