County Councillors say email block is making their job "incredibly difficult"

County Councillors say a block on emails coming from Gloucester City Council is making their job "incredibly difficult". The City Council was the target of a cyber attack, that's thought to have originated from Russia, back in December last year. Since then, Gloucestershire County Council has been blocking messages coming from city council email addresses as a precautionary measure.

At a meeting last week, Councillor Jeremy Hilton said the measure is hindering his ability to do work and it's making his job as a county councillor "incredibly difficult". "Currently I can send emails to officers and members of Gloucester City Council from my county council email account, but I can not receive replies".

Lynden Stowe, the finance and change cabinet member said the council is looking to remove the block in March. "We are currently working through the remediations outlined by a recent National Cyber Security Centre update"

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