PEOPLE living in Cotford St Luke have been without working telephones or broadband for over 24 hours after a length of BT cabling was stolen yesterday morning.

A BT spokesman has told the County Gazette that a piece of underground cable dug up, cut out and stolen on the A358 near Bishop’s Lydeard.

The spokesman said: "Since we discovered it had been stolen we’ve been working around the clock to get a new cable in.

“All being well we hope to have the new cable finished and everything back in service tomorrow morning.”

BT engineers have already put a new cable in place and are now working on joining up the 500 to 600 lines that run through it.

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