A Blackburn school has had fibre internet installed after previous internet cables were 'severed'.

Pupils have been put back online at St Bede’s High School after the severed internet cabling which went into an overflow teaching space in the sports block was replaced with fibre connections.

The internet was fixed over the Easter holidays and the school has now been future-proofed after Networx3 installed the cabling in the remote building, putting pupils back online.

Facilities and compliance manager at St Bede’s, Cameron Smith said: “With more than 1,000 pupils attending St Bede’s every day every scrap of space is being used across the school to allow for our Covid bubbles.

"It’s an expectation now that classrooms have an internet connection; all schools are reliant on it including ours.

“This building has full internet connectivity now; the connection is faster and more robust."

As a result students were able to return to learning in the two classrooms at the start of the summer term without any interruption to their studies.

Networx3 uses compressed air to install fibre optic cable which is quicker, more efficient and reduces the risk of cable damage.

Networx3 commercial director Caroline Earnshaw said: “We were only too glad to help when we got the call from St Bede’s and pulled out all the stops to get the upgrade done during the holidays to avoid disruption to youngsters’ studies.

“We see it as Networx3 doing their bit to support a local school, during these challenging times, by future-proofing its communications infrastructure.”