Campaigners have urged the government to make plans to support all households with energy costs this winter

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No 10 said no large UK public-facing critical services have been affected, but some ‘limited’ Government websites have temporarily gone dark.

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The NCSC is working to fix a critical PHP security flaw affecting almost 70% of websites, leaving 32 UK Government services offline and four partially unavailable as organisations worldwide scramble to apply security updates

Downing Street did not provide details of which websites are affected.

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The High North has become crucial for the UK’s defence and security, with Vladimir Putin’s Russia increasingly sending spy ships based there into British waters

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