AFTER almost four days, Chester city centre phone lines have been reconnected allowing hotels, shops and the train station to get back to business as usual.

BT announced they had re-established all broken connections around the City road and Brook Street area this afternoon (Friday, October 31),

On Monday night, a BT contractor had severed a cable while performing network improvements on Delamere Street, knocking 1,600 lines out.

It left phones dead, chip and pin machines inoperable and internet booking down.

Chester train station, the Queen Hotel and other businesses on City Road and Brook Street were amongst those worst hit.

BT spokeswoman Chris Orum said: “We’ve pretty well got all the lines back and working.

“All lines are connected – we’re just going through all the final checks.”