I must admit this is something that you don’t see everyday.

Gmail is finally back up, following a five hour outage that left frustrated users unable to send or receive emails. According to DownDetector, the issues started at around 08:44 BST, and have just been resolved. Speaking to MailOnline, a Google spokesperson said: ‘On Friday November 12 around 08:30 am UTC, some of our users experienced a service disruption to Google Cloud services, including Google Workspace.