As you are probably aware the web site has been unavailable for the last 24 hours. This was caused by a disk related failure on the server that hosts the web site. Engineers from our service provider have now sorted the problem, and the site is now fully functional again.

We hope that this is something that will not happen too often, and the web admin team will be monitoring it over the coming months. If a high failure pattern does start to emerge then we will consider alternate hosting arrangements.

Thank you for your patience during this outage.