Council website down as group claims cyber-attacks

A county council said its website was unavailable after it was targeted by a cyber-attack.

Suffolk County Council confirmed earlier the incident had affected several of its online services.

A spokesperson said it had suffered a denial of service attack, where a website is deliberately overloaded with traffic, and work was ongoing to restore the site.

A group on social media has claimed to have "dropped" the site along with others including Suffolk Chamber of Commerce and Harwich Town Council in Essex.