Southern Water bans tankers doing runs to US billionaire's lake

Southern Water has warned tanker companies to stop delivering its water to the Wiltshire estate of an American billionaire.

Some of it was recently used, entirely legally, to help fill a lake, despite a hosepipe ban being in place locally for domestic users.

Multiple water tankers have been filmed both day and night by local residents filling up from standpipes in part of neighbouring Hampshire where a drought order is in place.