BUSINESSES and homes in Church may be suffering with bad water pressure after a water main burst last night.

United Utilities said an issue had been reported in the village at around 10.26pm.

A United Utilities spokesman said the water main had burst in Market Street, and a team had been sent out to fix the issue at around 2.40am.

The spokesman said: "We’re sorry for the inconvenience, our leakage engineers are currently on site and we hope to have your taps flowing again very soon.

"We’ll provide further updates when the repair is complete."