Virgin TV fault is mended

Thousands of customers who lost TV for more than 24 hours after their Virgin Media systems failed have had their service restored.

The digital TV giant this morning said that all service should now have returned to normal.

Customers were left in the dark as a router failure, followed by a power cut, knocked out service on Wednesday evening.

Complaints continued to flood the company's website late into yesterday.

Virgin Media spokesperson Rebecca Burke said: "The service for the vast majority of customers affected by Wednesday's outage was restored, but there were just nine channels still coming back on-line late into yesterday afternoon.

"The main terrestrial channels one to five were all fully restored."