A power failure at a Google data centre in London disrupted Google Cloud services across the company’s London region this morning, causing problems for customers of businesses including the banks Revolut and Lloyds, the delivery company DPD and the property website Rightmove. Google said on its service health page thatContinue Reading
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Businesses funded by the government-backed Start Up Loans programme have helped create or support more than 249,000 jobs across the UK, according to data published today by the British Business Bank. The programme has provided 140,000 loans to small businesses, amounting to more than £1.4bn. In 2025/26 it issued 11,520Continue Reading
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In the summer of 1984, aged nine, I sat cross-legged in front of the television and watched a man in a white jumpsuit fly into the Los Angeles Coliseum on a rocket belt. He landed perfectly, saluted, and walked off. I spent the rest of that summer certain I’d beContinue Reading
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