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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Rachael Burford

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Wandsworth prison went without mains water supply for 8 days - What They Never Told You

HMP Wandsworth

(Picture: PA)

London's crumbling Victorian infrastructure must be updated, a shadow minister has said, after Wandsworth Prison and surrounding homes were left without a mains water supply for eight days.

Inmates at London’s largest jail had their shower use and ability to flush toilets restricted while Thames Water spent more than a week fixing a leak.

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