Google Cloud says services are recovering after outage hit banks, businesses, and courts

Image source, Getty Images Google says its services have mostly recovered after problems with its cloud platform struck several banks, businesses and even impacted the courts and NHS app . Google said the incident was caused by a "power event" impacting London-based data centres. It was first indicated on its "europe-west2" region's service health dashboard around 07:00 BST. Companies including Revolut, Halifax, Lloyds and DPD all reported problems earlier in the day. In its latest update at 15:00 BST, Google said the issue had been "mitigated for most of the customers" affected, but that it was still affecting "a very small number of customers". Our technology reporter writes that the disruption puts scrutiny on companies’ back-up arrangements, and whether they can keep operating when the infrastructure they depend on fails. We're ending our live coverage now - but you can read more in our news story here .