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Thousands of local businesses are set to benefit from the next stage of Leicestershire’s fibre broadband rollout.

​Around 10,000 more homes and businesses in Leicester are set to benefit from fibre broadband in the next couple of years. A total of £5 million will be invested to increase the existing coverage of fibre broadband in the city.

​A female engineer who’s been with BT for eight years hopes more women can follow her into what she says is a ‘challenging but rewarding’ career.

Residents of a Melton village, who campaigned for superfast broadband, say their lives have been transformed now it is available there.

The number of people signing up for high-speed fibre broadband in the Superfast Leicestershire area has more than doubled in the last 12 months.

Around 650 homes and businesses in and around villages including Bruntingthorpe, Peatling Magna, Willoughby Waterleys and Shearsby can start looking forward to the benefits of fibre broadband, it was announced today.

More than 50,000 homes and businesses across the county can now benefit from fast fibre broadband thanks to the Superfast Leicestershire project.