Google DOWN – Gmail and Calendar suffer mass outage

GOOGLE appears to be having a major outage as thousands complain of failing apps.

Complaints are flooding in about Google Calendar and Gmail – with users saying that the services won’t load.

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Reports of issues began appearing at around 9.30am UK time.

Online outage tracker Down Detector is logging thousands of reports across the UK.

Currently US Google users seem unaffected.

Google services are used by billions of people around the world, so any outage can cause significant disruption.

We’ve asked Google for comment and will update this story with any response.

More to come…