{"id":460790,"date":"2026-03-06T13:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/460790\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T13:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:42:08","slug":"over-12-schools-shut-as-oxfordshire-water-issues-hit-third-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/460790\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 12 schools shut as Oxfordshire water issues hit third day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than 12 schools have been forced to close as a burst water main continues to cause supply issues in part of Oxfordshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The schools, along with thousands of homes, in the OX7, OX18, OX28, OX29 and GL7 postcodes have had no water or low pressure after a broken pipe that feeds the reservoirs in the area was found next to Oxford Road at Eynsham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thames Water said it was fixed on Thursday evening and refilling of the network was under way. Water is expected to gradually return to most properties throughout Friday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Schools affected include those in Burford, Carterton and Witney. Bottled water stations remain in operation at Witney at Sainsbury&#8217;s and at Morrisons, Carterton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 12 schools have been forced to close as a burst water main continues to cause supply&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-460790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}