It’s a sign of the times
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Tag - Economics
The prime minister’s beauty sleep is interrupted by an unwelcome visitor with
designs on the government’s spending plans
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Former president said he would end persecution of crypto industry if he wins US
election in November
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Bitcoin has hit its highest level in more than six weeks after Donald Trump said
at the weekend he would end the “persecution” of the crypto industry if he wins
the US presidential election.
The cryptocurrency’s price rose by more than 3% on Monday to peak at about
$69,745, the highest it has been since 12 June when the currency at one point
changed hands at more than $69,800.
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Banks, airlines, railways, telecoms companies, TV and radio broadcasters, and
supermarkets have been taken offline
Britain’s Sky News is back on air after an outage lasting several hours, but its
presenter said the news channel was operating at minimal capacity and without
many of its usual services.
Two presenters were reading from paper scripts, with one, Anna Jones, saying
they were not yet able to connect to any guests outside the studio to conduct
interviews.
We’re impacted by the IT outage. This will have a big effect on us, so apologies
in advance for the inconvenience caused, and delays on the phone.
Due to ongoing Windows issues affecting IT worldwide, the practice is currently
unable to function as normal.
This may result in appointments needing to be cancelled and rearranged. Updates
will follow when available.
All practices in the UK using the NHS commissioned GP computer system EMIS are
currently without access to their IT systems.
This is beyond the control of GP surgeries. Please bear with us until we have
our IT systems back online.
We have no access to patient clinical records so are unable to book appointments
or provide information... This is a national problem and is being worked on as a
high priority.
Unfortunately there is a national issue with EMIS Web - our clinical computer
system.
This will affect our ability to book/consult with patients this morning.
We will update patients when we can. We apologise for the disruption.
I’m currently sat in NHS Chorley Hospital (UK) and can confirm they are having
issues and have been told they maybe cancelling appointments. I am an
outpatient.
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