Surrey’s become the best connected county in Britain following the completion of the main part of a high-speed broadband project.

The county council and BT have announced that fibre broadband coverage has been extended to more than 82,000 businesses and homes not included in commercial roll outs.

Surrey County Council Deputy Leader Peter Martin said that the roll out was delivered at a rate of nearly 200 homes and businesses per working day.

He also noted however that there was still work to do to reach premises located in the harder to reach places of the county.