MOST of the residents in the Malvern area who were hit by a broadband outage are now back online.

Openreach has said its engineers have worked hard to fix 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.

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

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A spokesperson for Openreach has said that great progress has been made with the work.

They said: "Engineers have made great progress throughout yesterday and overnight and most people are now back up and running.

"There is still some work to do for a small number, but that’s already underway."

People reported seeing engineers working through the night to fix the issue.