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Lit Fibre has provided ultrafast broadband free of charge to Cirencester Foodbank, reports the Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard.

Zzoomm’s £2.5m investment into Middlewich’s digital infrastructure has made full fibre available to 6,500 properties in the Cheshire town.

Around 5,000 premises in Dumfries and Galloway can now connect to full fibre through the Scottish Government’s £600m Reaching 100% programme.

Ogi has awarded £5,000 to community groups as part of the latest funding round of its grant programme Cefnogi.

Openreach’s network in Bristol now addresses 65% of the city’s premises, representing more than 145,000 homes and businesses.

BDUK has awarded Project Gigabit contracts in Oxfordshire and north east Staffordshire to Gigaclear and Connect Fibre respectively.

More than 800 hard-to-reach premises across Barnard Castle, Middleton-in-Teesdale and Winston can now access GoFibre’s network as the altnet completes phase one of its Project Gigabit contract.

Quickline’s network is now available to a total of 1,800 new homes across the Lincolnshire communities of Goulceby, Martin, Timberland and Belton.

Boosting rural connectivity could add £65.1bn to the UK economy and increase employment by 6.8%, according to research from Cebr for VMO2.

Fibrus will be the official shirt sponsor of Workington Town Rugby Club for the next two seasons.