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Virgin Media network goes titsup in Brum

Virgin Media customers across the west Midlands are this morning cut off from broadband, cable phone and digital TV.

Reg readers in Birmingham, Solihull and Kidderminster are reporting their connections went down at about 5.40am.

A update on Virgin Media's status page confirms engineers are investigating the problems.

A Virgin Media spokesman said the ongoing outage was caused by a power cut. He said power has now been restored and the firm expects its network in the area to return soon. The cause of the power cut isn't yet known.

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