QUESTIONS still hang over how long problems at the Beckley transmitter will affect TV services for people in Oxfordshire.

A fire broke out at the mast, near Oxford, last Thursday, cutting most channels for about 410,000 people.

For the past three months engineers have been working on upgrading the mast in preparation for the switchover to digital TV next year. Services have been switched to a reserve antenna leaving some viewers without channels.

Arqiva, the company carrying out the work, had been due to complete the work last Friday.

But now the problems look set to remain as engineers continue to use the reserve antenna while they determine what started the fire. A spokesman said it could not give people a date for when full services would be restored.

John Wadeson, of Appleton, near Abingdon, has not been able to receive many digital channels for months. He said: “The Oxford Mail are the only ones letting people know what’s going on.”