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Villages including neighbouring Hutton and Longton in South Ribble are set to benefit from better broadband

All the places in Lancs where high-speed broadband is being rolled out

Kirkham has access to Full Fibre broadband.

Broadband boost for 8,000 Kirkham homes and businesses

Openreach has named 94 more UK areas where traditional copper broadband and landline services will be phased out (Photo: Pexels)

The 94 areas where 'traditional' broadband services will stop working

People can use the Openreach website to see when they can upgrade.

Full fibre broadband for more Blackpool homes

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Full list of new Openreach exchange areas - what it means for bills

Millions face a broadband shake-up - here’s how to check if you’re affected

Millions of BT and Sky customers face internet shake-up

999 call operators strike today - how emergency calls will be affected

John Devlin 29/07/2022. GLASGOW. BT workers on the picket line in Glasgow. CWU members in Northern Ireland and across the UK, including 999 call handlers, are to take part in further strike action tomorrow

CWU October strikes: over 40,000 BT and Openreach staff walk out

Openreach is spending £11m upgrading homes to full fibre broadband in some parts of Lancashire

Full fibre broadband boost for Lancashire homes from £11m scheme

4,000 jobs and 3,000 apprenticeships will be created this year (Photo: Getty Images)

Openreach is creating 4,000 new roles this year in huge job boost

BT plans to provide high speed internet to 20m UK homes - but will it cost customers more? (Photo: Shutterstock)

BT plans to provide high speed internet to 20m UK homes - but will it cost custo...

BT faces the threat of its first national strike in over 30 years as workers are set to vote on industrial action in a row over jobs (Photo: Shutterstock)

BT staff could strike across the UK for the first time in more than 30 years - w...

Are you desperate to change your provider? (Photo: Shutterstock)

Switching broadband provider should be 'less hassle' says watchdog - everything ...

UK-wide superfast programme pushed broadband speeds up a gear for 5.5 million homes. (Picture: Shutterstock)

Upgrading to superfast broadband could boost your home's value by up to £3,500

Residents who don’t already have access to a 100Mbps broadband service can check if they may qualify and pledge their voucher on the Connect my Community website.

Garstang residents urged to pool Government-backed vouchers to deliver more ultr...

Openreach

At least 255 new jobs created in North West by broadband giant Openreach
Openreach today bucked the prevailing economic trend by creating at least 255 new North West engineering jobs.
David Nowell

An Openreach van

Ultra-fast broadband to be rolled out to another 22 Lancashire towns and village...

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Ofcom proposes ban on mobile firms selling locked phones

The majority of those who had negotiated had been successful.

One call to your broadband provider 'could lead to £120 saving'

How did your provider rank? (Photo: Shutterstock)

These are the worst broadband providers in the UK - how does yours rank?

Fylde MP Mark Menzies, Coun Karen Buckley deputy leader of Fylde Council, Coun Susan M Fazackerley leader of Fylde Council, County Coun Peter Buckley at the site of the new M55 link at Heyhouses

D-day looms for new motorway link in Lancashire

Mark Menzies MP

'˜Key step forward' for M55 link road

Business expo

Lancashire-based '‹Shout Network announce Openreach as headline sponsor of Merse...

The search is on for dozens of Openreach trainees

Openreach in major Lancashire recruitment drive

Openreach is set to recruit trainee engineers

Trainee engineer jobs up for grabs as broadband scheme expands

The scene of the crash yesterday. Picture by Stuart Caddick

Blackpool man pulled crash victim from wrecked car on M55

Helen Stuart and Sarah Crossley from Farm Creative

Garstang marketing firm scoops UK's best '˜rural' award
A Bilsborrow businesswoman, who set up her marketing agency from her family's working farm has been crowned Britain's best rurally-based creative business at the Rural Business Awards 2017.
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Recruitment drive for network firm

Simon Couchman of ICG

Summer of success for Fylde coast agency

Cat Smith MP

MP says '˜BT is failing our local communities'

The broadband cabinet at Apollo Court, Whitehills, which caused the trouble

Internet woe is over for Whitehills firms

Adam Archer, 29, of South Shore, spent 11 years in the army before joining BT's Openreach team of engineers.

Ex-soldiers get Fylde connected

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