Is Google News down? Service suffers apparent outage across desktop and mobile apps

A monitoring service showed a surge in reports saying Google News was not working (Tim Goode/PA)

Google’s news service appeared to suffer an outage on Friday afternoon, with users reporting that they were unable to see updates.

Down Detector, a website which monitors outages across the globe, showed a surge in the number of reports that Google News was not working at around 1pm on May 31.