-A remote set of UK islands were cut off from all communication Thursday, police said.

-A communications company said there was a "break" in a vital undersea cable.

-It was the second such break in the space of a week, with no immediate explanation.

A remote set of islands off the cost of Scotland was mysteriously cut off from the outside world on Thursday, with phones and internet connections not working after damage to an undersea cable.

Local police on the Shetland Islands said that there was a "complete outage" in the islands and that "phones, internet and computers are not usable."