Around 16,000 homes were left without water in North Yorkshire after an 'issue' during maintenance work.

Yorkshire Water first posted on X at 11.06am this morning (March 18). The post read: "We’re aware that some customers in YO8 may be experiencing low pressure or no water.

"We’re really sorry about this and our teams are in the area investigating the issue."


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The YO8 area, which covers Selby, was not the only area affected by the fault - with a reader from Church Fenton reporting similar difficulties.

Yorkshire Water has since confirmed the cause of the fault.

A spokesperson said: "We experienced an issue during routine maintenance at Brayton reservoir, which has since been resolved by our team."

The outages - which have since been fixed - were confirmed by Yorkshire Water to have affected 16,000 homes in the area.