More than 33,000 homes and businesses in North Lincolnshire now have access to superfast fibre broadband thanks to the rollout of a broadband scheme, according to the most recent figures.

Slow broadband is being blamed for areas of Britain not having access to online services, including BBC iPlayer, according to research from King’s College London.

The county of Essex has been praised by the UK government for being one of the top four counties in delivering superfast broadband. The compliment about the county's implementation of broadband services came at a conference hosted by Superfast Essex and was made by Christ Townsend, the chief executive of Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK).

Two villages in the county of Herefordshire have now been connected with a fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) connection ensuring speeds of up to 100Mb.

Football fans following the Euro 2016 online could face a struggle to watch their nation this summer, thanks to slow and inadequate broadband connections.

Businesses are struggling under the poor broadband service being offered in parts of Wales, the chief executive of IT company Cisco has said.

Consumer group Which? has called on the advertising watchdog, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) to ban companies from advertising super-fast broadband speeds when there are currently more than 15 million households who do not get the speeds they pay for.

The Isle of the Wight's rural broadband project has now been completed, with superfast broadband available to 99 per cent of households and businesses on the island, making it one of the best-connected areas in the UK.

Devon and Somerset are set to have at least 95 per cent of their counties connected to superfast broadband by the end of 2017, thanks to the Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) scheme.

A new EU report has revealed that more than a third of UK households are signed up to superfast internet connections.