Liam Dutton explains the weather conditions that have led to a drought being declared
Parts of England are officially in a drought following the dry spring, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has said.
Areas of East Anglia are in drought, with parts of the Midlands, South West and South East in a "near-drought" state.
In the drought-affected areas, Anglian Water and Cambridge Water say there is no threat to public water supplies.
But Severn Trent Water says there may be restrictions if rainfall stays low.
And Thames Water, which serves London and the Thames Valley, has reassured its customers that hosepipe bans are unlikely this year.
The British Retail Consortium said the dry weather had created "another unwelcome upward pressure on food prices".
Both the South East and central-southern region of England have had their driest spring on record.
Across England and Wales as a whole it has been the driest spring since 1990, prompting the Environment Agency to issue advice on how best to reduce water use.
It comes as large areas of northern Europe are facing drought after one of the driest European springs on record.
But not all areas of the UK have suffered from the dry weather. Scotland has seen three times the average amount of rain this spring, while snow flurries were reported at the summit of Mount Snowdon in north Wales.
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