The Canary website forced to close down

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The move comes after banks blocked it from accessing funds and amid allegations of management incompetence made by former staff.

It announced on social media that it would be closing “for the foreseeable future,” although it pledged to issue a rebuttal of the attacks against it in the next few days, describing itself as “down but not yet out.”

The Canary briefly appeared as a daily print paper during the summer, but that did not long endure.

It said that it had faced “malicious lies” by ex-employees and the attacks had made it “unsustainable, both financially and operationally.”

The site, first launched in 2015, is understood to employ about 50 full- and part-time staff.

Canary chief executive Steve Topple said that all staff had been paid, and had pension contributions made, until the end of September.

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