Freeview viewers in Cirencester may need to retune their TV’s next month.

Some channels are moving to new airwaves to allow for future development of new mobile broadband services.

Following a decision by the government, transmitters across the UK are being updated region by region as part of a major engineering programme being carried out between now and 2020.

Due to these changes, 4,500 viewers from Cirencester may be affected on February 7.

The required changes will begin at the Cirencester local transmitter around mid-morning, and services will be subject to disruption until lunchtime.

After this, any viewers who find they are missing channels can retune.

Freeview will be running an information campaign to prepare people for the change, including advertising and on-screen messages.

Satellite and cable TV users will not be affected by the changes.

Further information is available online at www.freeview.co.uk/tvchanges