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Sydney Morning Herald on 2023-04-24 04:02

Brits suffer through government’s bungled emergency alert trial

An alarm on every mobile phone in Britain was supposed to go off at 3pm to test a new national warning system. It did not go as smoothly as had been hoped.

Sarah Bird

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