Virgin Media are frantically scrambling to get services back online after an outage hit thousands of homes across the country, including in Kent.

The internet provider said at 8.30pm: "We’re investigating an intermittent broadband issue where connectivity is interrupted for a short period of time before being restored. We’re urgently looking into the problem and working flat out to fix it."

A post on its website added: "We know how frustrating this is and we apologise."

According to a map of where issues are being reported Walderslade is particularly badly impacted while there are also problems in Maidstone, Tonbridge, Gravesend and Margate.

A Virgin Media spokesman said:“An intermittent broadband issue that started yesterday evening was fixed in the early hours of this morning. This was not caused by increased usage or a lack of capacity. We know how frustrating this was for customers and we sincerely apologise for any inconvenience caused.”

People have still been reporting some issues this morning.

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