AROUND 4,000 homes and businesses have had their wifi fully restored after broadband issues last week.

Openreach has said its engineers have worked now restored the five damaged cables which caused broadband problems around Malvern.

The company that looks after the national broadband network, said the underground cables were damaged on Thursday, July 6.

However, customers of companies such as Sky, BT, TalkTalk, Vodafone and Plusnet began to experience broadband issues since about 3pm on Wednesday (July 5).

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A spokesperson for Openreach said: “Our engineers worked as quickly as possible after a number of our cables were badly damaged last week.

"Within a couple of days, the repair work was largely complete and broadband was restored to around 4,000 homes and businesses.

"They worked day and night - as quickly and safely as possible – recognising how disruptive it was for people to be without internet.”

People reported seeing engineers working through the night last week to fix the issues.