Vets must also tell clients if cheaper medicine is available online as part of the rule updates which surgeries have the coming months to bring in.

Verizon, which owns the cable, says it is working to repair it "as quickly as possible".

Paramount has reached a settlement with the US states in a lawsuit challenging its $110bn merger with Warner Bros

The question is whether all of these incidents were isolated and unavoidable, or whether they point to something more systemic.