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The £3.6bn Large Hadron Collider will be out of action for around two months after magnets over-heated, a spokesman for the project said today.

The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) said damage to the huge project below Switzerland, discovered yesterday, was worse than it first thought.

The collider, which was designed to send particles around a 16 mile circuit in a bid to unravel some of the secrets of the universe, was shut down to allow an investigation to take place.

Spokesman James Gillies said early indications were that there was a fault in an ‘electrical inter-connection’ between two magnets.

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