The campaign to get faster internet services in Bradley Stoke is gathering pace.

Internet users in the town have complained they are being left behind when it comes to getting a broadband service anywhere near as fast as it is elsewhere.

When Bradley Stoke was being built, most of the 9,000 houses were linked up to the fibre-optic cable network now provided by companies such as Virgin Media.

But about 2,000 homes were missed out in the early Nineties and those residents have suffered from slow internet connections via the phone line, because the BT exchanges for the town – in Almondsbury and Filton – are too far away.

Chris Kelly, the editor of the Bradley Stoke Examiner website, launched a campaign for faster broadband and members of the public have been asked to email their interest to Virgin Media.

So far, 160 have registered but the company says it needs many more – as many as 1,000 – to roll out more fibre-optic cabling in the area.

Bradley Stoke Town Council has also been leafleting homes to back the Cable My Street campaign.

Since the Evening Post published a story on the problem on June 1, freelance journalist John Bradbury discovered he could get high-speed broadband where he lived, after previously being told he could not.

The 49-year-old, of Ellan Hay Road, said: "The Bradley Stoke Examiner and the Bristol Evening Post deserve my sincere congratulations since it has emerged that I am able to obtain high-speed broadband in my street after all."