{"id":148138,"date":"2022-08-24T16:02:56","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T15:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.phoenixfm.com\/?p=148138"},"modified":"2022-08-24T16:02:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T15:02:56","slug":"no-hosepipe-ban-essex-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.phoenixfm.com\/?p=148138","title":{"rendered":"No Hosepipe Ban for Essex &#8211; Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>A hosepipe ban has come into force in parts of the south-east.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-148435\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoenixfm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/pa-01-hosepipe-ban-london-august22.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.phoenixfm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/pa-01-hosepipe-ban-london-august22.jpg 448w, https:\/\/staging.phoenixfm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/pa-01-hosepipe-ban-london-august22-302x170.jpg 302w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>The ban was imposed by Thames Water from today and will hit 10 million customers across the Thames Valley and London.<br \/>People will not be able to use hosepipes to water gardens, wash cars and windows, or fill paddling pools.<br \/>The decision was announced earlier this month after reports of the River Thames reaching its lowest level since 2005.<br \/>Those found to have breached the rules could be fined up to \u00a31,000.<br \/>But water suppliers in Essex say there are no plans to introduce a hosepipe ban this summer, as reservoirs are at &#8220;healthy levels for this time of year&#8221;, though there is &#8216;very high demand&#8217;<\/p>\r\n<p>Also on today&#8217;s show &#8211;\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>Funniest joke at the Edinburgh Fringe this year as voted by the public.<\/p>\r\n<p>A construction worker got knocked out in a bizarre accident.<\/p>\r\n<p>Rising energy prices could push UK inflation as high as 18% next year.<\/p>\r\n<p>Taylor Swift&#8217;s songwriting is to be the subject of a new literature course at a Texas university.<\/p>\r\n<p>You can listen to the show here &#8211; <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/sorry.png\" alt=\"No audio available\" style=\"width:100%; max-width:400px;\"><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hosepipe ban has come into force in parts of the south-east.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":148435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[633],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-one-2-three"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.phoenixfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.phoenixfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.phoenixfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.phoenixfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.phoenixfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148138"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staging.phoenixfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148436,"href":"https:\/\/staging.phoenixfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148138\/revisions\/148436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.phoenixfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/148435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.phoenixfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.phoenixfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.phoenixfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}