Improved broadband for thousands more people

All about South Lanarkshire

- JUDITH TONNER

A further 3000 homes and businesses across South Lanarkshire are to receive improved broadband as part of the further rollout of the major Project Gigabit connectivity scheme.

The premises will be connected through the latest £157 million phase of the project, its largest to date and which is designed to benefit 65,000 properties across Scotland which include "many in some of the most isolated areas of the UK".

Local MPs Imogen Walker and Michael Shanks welcomed the news that a growing number of constituents will have access to faster and more reliable broadband following the Openreach installation.